RAF Brize Norton Zone Transit | Oxford To Bristol VFR | ATC Audio
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2022
- After a visit to London Oxford Airport it's time to return to my base at Bristol. For this flight I decide to transit the Control Zone at RAF Brize Norton, routing Charlbury, Bampton and Faringdon. The route takes me just to the East of Brize, who were incredibly friendly on this glorious summer's evening.
The decision to transit Brize was for my own hour building experience. I have edited this video to highlight the procedure for the transit, as opposed to a sightseeing exercise. However, this video is hopefully also useful to other pilots and will encourage more people to not be afraid to request such a transit.
It should be noted that Brize is a major military installation and the airspace around Brize is Class D. The minimal video footage published here of the station is both respectful in nature and has been approved by the relevant persons with their permission.
Once clear of Brize it's a straightforward flight back to Bristol International Airport, enjoying stunning sunset views along the way.
Please note this video is intended for entertainment only and for those who wish to follow my journey. Other pilots should always seek the professional advice of their flight school or a qualified person.
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I hope this video is useful to students and experienced pilots alike. Please bear in mind the footage of Brize has been approved and published with permission from the relevant persons. Please also remember this is not the perfect flight. I had only 60 hours logged when this was recorded. Recording yourself is an excellent tool for debriefing and self improvement, so please keep the comments constructive. Thank you!
i have to say for a freshly minted PPL your flying and RT seems excellent. There's a definite advantage to learning at a large international airport (I did mine at EGFF) in terms of being tighter on the procedures and more confident on the radio. ! Good luck on your journey.
Lovely! That runway at Bristol is so huge, you can't even see the far end of it when you touch down. You greased that landing!
Cheers Charlie. Yes Bristol is a tad larger than Dunkeswell! 😂
Nice Chris, they do a nice coffee in the lounge at Oxford, was there last year in the P28 had a nice trip from Turweston Flying club, via Silverstone, Milton Keynes, Cranfield, South towards Leighton Buzzard, Aylesbury, Oxford, Land for coffee, then back to Turweston. Loved it.
The lounge areas at Oxford are rather posh! Sounds like you had quite the expedition for your coffee David
Super video, reminds me of happy times in the 1980s.
My dad was based - farmers field - just in that sharp corner just outside outside of Brize Zone near the Lechlade. Their circuit turning point was a barn pretty much in that sharp corner section.
Back then Brize, Fairford, Kemble, Wroughton, Lynham were all active military bases. A trip to Eg Thruxton required transit and penatration requests lots of times in a relatively short flight and there wasnt often the choice to avoid them and go the long way around. Then there was Boscombe etc after Marlborough.
I was happy in the right seat steering and listening to dad endlessly in touch with all the MATZ controllers. A busy time for a quick trip out and ham egg and chips! Always nice to catch up with great guys like the late Barry Dyke though. A calm, warm, lovely guy, with the right level of assertiveness, long time CFI Western Air (Thruxton).
My dad used to fly with his boss out of South Marston (Supermarine) in a Twin Comanche. Honda took it over and ruined it aesthetically 🙄😄 then they left in recent times, going to be used for warehousing. Swindon could do with a small airport if it wants city status but sadly the elected and unelected oligarchy always seem to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in that regard 🙄🙄😄😄😕
An airport at Swindon would be awesome, but then I'm biased and would love there to be more airfields everywhere. All the best things were made in the 80s!
@@CJThePilot 👍😄😄👍 I agree, ditto! More footage when you can please 👍👍😊😊
Excellent video. I'm battling through my Radio Telephony practical at the moment, and this video is a wonderful find. Thanks for posting. Another Flying Reporter in the making.
Thank you, I really appreciate those kind comments. This particular video is fast becoming my most watched. I very much hope you are successful with your FRTOL and PPL
I first took flying lessons (36 hours) in the US, in 1998. Never had an issue with RT. Didn't continue flying when I returned to Liverpool but decided to restart, post-pandemic, and found RT here to be an absolute b*tch. It didn't help that my first 25 hours was with a faulty Sennheiser headset so I couldn't hear ATC. That destroyed my confidence because I thought I was crap - so my "Communicate" made my airmanship really bad.
My problem now isn't hearing them but the 'read-back' so I learned short-hand and scribble everything down to read-back.
CAP413 has some good stuff but that will only teach accurate phraseology which is only part of the issue. The IR and helicopter stuff can be ignored.
I just came across two apps; "G-UDRT" on Andriod (I think it's also available on iPhone too) and also "Readability 5" which is a web-based app.
Great Video! Lovely evening for it too!!
Thank you! It was a gorgeous evening!
Nice to see my local airfield on video. The fire crew do a great job there. Good radio work there. You know what it is? A lot of low hours pilots are scared of controlled airspace.
Everyone does a great job at Oxford. I'm always very impressed with things there. Yes, I do believe there is a tendency for those pilots who learn in Class G to perhaps be reluctant and cautious of going near controlled airspace. Hopefully videos like this one help
Enjoyed that
Thanks Neil
Very slick & professional video & flying 👍🏼
Thank you very much for saying so. I always aim to fly in a professional manner
Great Video! I did a zone transit at Brize on my Skill Test and found them very helpful. Seeing the runway at Bristol, from the front of the aircraft looks pretty awesome. It’s massive! 😀How does the landing fee work at Bristol? Do you get special rates being based there? Cheers Andy (EGBJ)
Hi Andy, thanks for the comments I really appreciate it. I've always found Brize to be extremely helpful, yet I know so many pilots who are terrified to speak with them. When it comes to Bristol, as far as I'm aware you'd have to contact them to enquire about landing and handling fees. Hope that helps
Shouldn't QFE have been used for landing?
In a word... no. Bristol (BRS / EGGD) along with the other major international airports are primarily concerned with their commercial traffic flying IFR and instrument approaches. Below the transition altitude you set QNH in the altimeter sub scale for terrain and obstacle clearance. The ATIS gives this information along with threshold elevation for the active runway (approx. 610ft at BRS). QFE can be requested and used, but it's considered standard practice to use QNH. Hence light aircraft usually conform to this when joining and fly in at 1,600ft on QNH. I've only ever used QFE at Bristol when flying multiple circuits.
@@CJThePilot ok thanks for that info......never flown into any international airports.
Will remember that!
There is no right or wrong, but to answer your original question generally QNH is preferred at airports such as Bristol. You should take a look at the instrument plates. You'll note that they give the altitudes (QNH) for the approach in bold, but heights are also given should the pilot choose to operate on QFE. I hope that helps. You are right to point it out as of course the majority of smaller airfields will give QFE. Perhaps I should make a video on this in the future!
much easier to stay on the QNH for me personally. I know the elevation and fly according to that. In instrument flying it's always QNH...
Not only is this loss of Aerodromes is a huge loss GA community, but it’s also a real loss of utility and underutilisation. A lot of these are fields could’ve been used and kept semi available for GA through dual use. Just think how much money they would’ve saved from the asylum seeker, bill - Had they not bulldozed all these X RAF/ Army bases. It’s a scandalous waste of resources. Even Greenham Common after being built all that money spent, only a historic control tower and a few bunkers remain - ironically, if Putin carries on with his slaughter campaigns, we could end up seriously regretting this!
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I made a decision at the start that I would not mix my deepest political opinions with this UA-cam channel. Having said that I agree with many of your sentiments, but that is as much as I will allow myself to say. I hope you enjoyed the video