Blackbushe Airport website

[andypspotter]

www.blackbusheairport.co.uk/

[lordevanelpuss]

What a pity there's no live movement info page like there is on Shoreham's site.

[BrenMac]

Pay for the staff and equipment and I am sure it could be organised.... but would it serve any purpose?

[exeglkflyer]

I suspect that some of the Bushe's Customers prefer to remain fairly discreet.

[busterbear]

www.blackbusheairport.co.uk/news

[Deleted]

Andy, Is there a current Blackbushe residents list available?

[slideman]

This is resident list as per October 2018

blackbusheairport.proboards.com/thread/603/blackbushe-resident-aircraft-october-2018?page=1&scrollTo=10564

Trev

[andypspotter]

Based on my recent sightings, I would suggest that this is the present situation (Jan 2019)

G-ATEF Cessna 150
G-ATXD Piper PA30
G-AVSF Piper PA28
G-AWUJ Cessna 150
G-BBRC Fuji FA200
G-BCIR Piper PA28
G-BDFW Rockwell 112
G-BFIY Cessna 150
G-BICW Piper PA28
G-BIJV Cessna 152
G-BJDW Cessna 172
G-BMFP Piper PA28
G-BMWR Rockwell 112
G-BOJI Piper PA28RT
G-BOMU Piper PA28
G-BOOF Piper PA28
G-BPTI Socata TB20
G-BROX Robinson R22
G-BSYY Piper PA28
G-BVYF Piper PA31
G-BZEA Cessna 152
G-BZEB Cessna 152
G-CBBC SA Bulldog (XX515)
G-CBZR Piper PA28R
G-CDTX Cessna 152
G-CHFK Piper PA32
G-CNCN Rockwell 112
G-CICG Ikarus C42
G-CLAC Piper PA28
G-CRSS Cabri G2
G-CSBM Cessna 150
G-DVTA Cessna 206
G-DXTR Beech 200 (here and Fairoaks)
G-EGLK Czech PS-28
G-ENTT Cessna 152
G-ESSL Cessna 182FP
G-FFFC Cenna 510
G-FPSA Piper PA28
G-GHOW Cessna 182
G-LSFI Piper PA28
G-LSZA Diamond DA42
G-MULT Beech 76
G-OAVA Robinson R22
G-OSUS Mooney M20
G-PDSI Cessna 172
G-PERU Cabri G2
G-RAAM Piper PA28
G-RCMP Piper PA28
G-RECW Piper PA28
G-SAWI Piper PA32
G-SIGN Piper PA39
G-TRUU Piper PA34
G-UCAN Tecnam P2002
G-VVBL Robinson R44
G-WNCH Beech 200 (here and Fairoaks)
N20TB SOCATA TB20
N78GG Beech F33
N100RZ Cirrus SR22
N147LK Cirrus SR22
N551TT Piper PA32
N799DS Diamond DA40
N1407J Rockwell 112
N6010Y Rockwell 114
N9432B Cessna 175
N38273 Piper PA28

Note that Phoenix helicopters rotate their aircraft between here and Lee-on-Solent. Other helicopters in their fleet include R22s G-DOGI, G-PERE and R44 G-SUNN. Synergy's PA28 G-ELZY has also recently been present.

Regards

Andy H

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Andy and Trev,

Many thanks for the info, greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work.

Togy.

[andypspotter]

Looks like the new airspace around arrangements have been fairly well received...

Blackbushe Airport is right on the edge of the new Farnborough controlled airspace which came into effect on 27 February. So, in the first week since it started to bite, how has the airport coped? Here’s Blackbushe’s own report:

Traffic Volumes
We’ve handled 481 movements this week, which is above average for the time of year. We’re about 10% down on last year, but we had some very poor weather this year, and it was gloriously sunny in the same week last year! Overall no reason for concern.

Clearances
We’ve had lots of experience delivering clearances on both Runway 25 and Runway 07.

Following feedback from those who’ve been receiving them, we’ve made the standard VFR clearances available on our Aerodrome Information page, and the Class D FAQs page. We’ve also produced a cheat sheet for your knee-board to assist you in reading back the clearance. Download yours now!

Infringements
We’ve had four infringements of the CTR reported to us. All of these have been very small infringements at the end of the downwind leg for Runway 25 as pictured below.

None have been in a congested circuit and have been primarily down to familiarisation with the turning point at Hawley Lake.

For the avoidance of doubt, base turns should be made inside Hawley Lake, as the lake itself lies mostly outside of the ATZ. We are aware the lake is not shown on SkyDemon.

Blackbushe Airport circuits

What happens with infringements?
When an infringement is reported to us, we will contact the pilot right away. We have produced a short one page questionnaire to understand what led to the infringement and which of our briefing materials had been used.

Likewise, NATS has an online questionnaire. It is useful for pilots to complete these for two reasons:

We want to identify as quickly as possible if there any immediate actions we need to take, and rectify any problems.

The answers will be provided alongside the MOR filing which demonstrates the infringement has already been investigated, (although you’ll most likely still be asked for a response by the CAA).

We have been assured that all infringements are being considered in the light of new airspace that pilots, AFISOs, and ATCOs are all still becoming familiar with.

Squawks
It became apparent that some aircraft were not setting their Squawk to 7010 when rejoining Blackbushe. We had a few calls from Farnborough to ask us to request aircraft to squawk 7010.

This isn’t explicit in our rules either, which focus on squawks for departures. However, the expectation is to set 7010 when rejoining for circuits or landing. The rules will be updated to make this explicit.

Therefore, for the immediate future, FISOs will now include the Squawk in the aerodrome information when departing or rejoining. Remember, our FISOs can’t see your squawk so when you hear this, they aren’t pointing out that yours is set incorrectly, they are just reminding you to check. Hopefully in a few weeks this will become second nature.

Other feedback
We’ve spoken to several of the pilots following their flights to get feedback which has been very positive. Please do remember to feedback your experiences. We now have a weekly conference call with Farnborough and maintain daily communications as issues arise. We would rather sort any issues immediately.

Tell your friends
We’re aware of negativity surrounding the airspace implementation and understand why pilots may be hesitant.

But please, if you’ve had a good experience of Blackbushe and the Farnborough CAS, tell your friends, put it on social media etc – we could do with your help!