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Little Rissington Airfield (EGVL)
Submitted by: Tim Pennock
Primary users are 637 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, operating military motor gliders for instruction of the UK's Air Cadets.
Operation is on weekends and during selected weeks. Circuit height is 800ft QFE on any of three runways.
Secondary use is by HM's Armed Forces when the Squadron is not active.
Contact Details:
Operators of airfield Mon-Fri: Devonair at Little Rissington, tel: 01451 810894, contact Martin on 07836 561073.
Hangars 102 & 103
RAF Little Rissington Airfield
Upper Rissington
Gloucestershire
GL54 2LR
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Latest Review:
Sat 1 Mar - JP Rokacz - Birmingham
| “ | Flew into Little Rissington on 18 Feb; very friendly PPR over the day before, with all required info - most of which can also be found on the Devonair website (see link). Flying in from White Waltham, we called Brize Zone (124.275 MHz) and were provided with FIS and cleared through the CTR; right on top on Brize's massive runway with plenty of Tristars and VC-10Ks on the apron! Nice...
Little Rissington stand out due to its characteristic RAF-base shape with 3 runways. Wind was north-easterly so we did a RH circuit for runway 04 (the long one). No answer on Safety com (135.475 MHz) so we did blind calls in the circuit. The airfield is routinely used by RAF cadets gliding at the week-ends but movements are rare on weekdays. Runway surface is very good - 04/22 even looks like it was resurfaced not too long ago!
After landing we were motioned towards the Devonair hangars (to the South of the airfield) by two gentlemen working on the airfield. The airfield is quite vast. As advised during PPR, use the grass taxiway (taxying between rows of orange cones) rather than the (dilapidated) hard ones.
We parked in front of one of the Devonair hangars. Very friendly welcome, the cup of coffee was "on the house" and we were treated to a visit of the hangars and the based aircraft. I remember at least two Chipmunks (one fully restored in RAF colours), a Stearman, plus no less than four DH Doves! At least two of these were intact but sadly haven't been flying for a while. Their return to a flying status (mostly hampered by paperwork) is obviously a labour of love for Devonair! But seeing the considerable stock of spare parts at their disposal, there is good hope that one Dove at least will return to the air soon.
On leaving, an intersection take-off still provided the Robin with plenty of runway (04/22 is about 1,400 m long) and tracking straight to DTY VOR/DME. ” |
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