Priory Farm Fly Out to Norwich Airport

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th January saw a great fly out to Norwich airport and a visit of the Air Traffic Control centre there .

Norwich Aviation Centre had worked with the Priory Farm group to arrange 2 groups of 5-6 light aircraft to fly the short hop North and land at Norwich. Rob from NAC had managed all the planning on the meet and greet..making it super easy for us visiting aircraft to land, and be marshalled safely to the light aircraft parking and then through the security gate to NAC offices for a nice warming coffee ..it WAS a cold day .. especially in an open topped aircraft .. I had 6 layers on top that day !

Ian McDowell had very kindly arranged to handle 2 sets of visitors to the excellent tower facilities where we had a chance to meet and chat with the voices behind the radio calls we often make in the region.

Being a fully active airfield ..vs a small grass strip made for some different approaches and procedures but all went off very well.

Short video of me landing long … at over 1,800m there was no point in landing on the piano keys to vacate at the far end … the hold off was quite interesting for about 1/2 mile before chopping the throttle to land and pull off at Delta