Kemble has a great place to eat called the “Aviator”. A few weeks ago, the high pressure gave a sunny blue sky, but the winds were gusting a little too high for landing at Kemble. My friend Anthony came with me during this trip. He passed his general flight test a few weeks after me. Since then, we both have our night rating and he has started his ATPL course with CATS and doing his IMC rating with Donald and Mike. We took off from Cranfield runway 03 and made a left turn to track 270 from CFD VOR. Our first waypoint was Banbury. On route we flew over Silverstone, passed Turwesten, spoke to Oxford as we would fly close to their ILS approach. At Banbury, we made a left turn to track 230 from DTY VOR and getting a Basic service from Brize Radar due to flying in their Area of Intense Aerial Activity. The next waypoint would be Cirencester, making sure to fly north of the town to keep clear of Brize control zone.
After landing, you could not avoid seeing 3 B747’s parked outside some hangers. They are being salvaged. We landed at the end of the day just before the aerodrome closed. This gave just enough time to pay the landing fee, take a look around the static aeroplanes, including a Red Arrows jet and collect some literature about the charity Fly2Help.
The tower kindly got a squak for me from Brize Control before we departed, which meant that we would be expected by Brize controllers as soon as we took off from kemble. RAF Fairford and RAF Brize Norton are 5 nm to the east of Kamble. Our direct route back to Cranfield would require a MATS crossing approval. After departing Kemble, we called Brize who cleared us all the way through their zone. Over Oxford, and passing Milton Keynes, we were soon back to Woburn for a straight in approach to 03.
