I land at the airfield with 29 pages of rules. 

I enjoyed the video. Good, clear explanation of all the procedures involved and a nice summary of Blackbushe's history and the plans for the future.

Haven't checked in here for a while and it's a joy to see how much your flying (perfect PA-28 touchdown there on 07) and pilot confidence has sky-rocketed. Fantastic stuff. Well done.

Great video, the departure video on the supporters club was really interesting and informative as well

Great video, first time viewer of the channel. Loved the interview and history aspect you put in here!

Thanks Jon.😊

Great video as always John…I am based at Blackbushe and think is a great GA airfield. As you say, it looks a tad complicated for visitors but as is often the case with flying, if you do your homework, read the notes and have a good look at the charts, the reality is easier than it looks on paper. The tower staff are first class and very professional….highly recommend the airfield to pilots who haven’t been in before or for while.

Another really useful video Jon, particularly as I’m in the midst of the nav/cross country phase of training. Reminds me clearly to a/ plan ahead and b/ give yourself time

Really, really great Video… Thankyou as always!!

Great video! Your piloting has become much more professional. Good briefings.

Nice landing, John.

They used to hold markets there once.

Great video and as a pilot who flies from Blackbushe it was great to hear your approach to joining from Farnborough. Once you know the set up it isn’t too daunting and the team in the tower here are fab and will always support anyone looking to come to visit. 😊

Jon, you know this video is so good. Absolutely seamless and very useful. Many congratulations, well deserved. Kind regards, Harry Scott PS would be fun to bump into you when you’re next at my home base, Earls Colne

Another polished review, Jon, and very useful info re the airspace to consider when visiting Blackbushe👌🏻👍🏻

Fascinating Jon. 👌

What a fantastic landing. Straight as a dice!

Just wondered if u have thought abut about a review of Elstree? Couple of interesting points that I know about. 1. Was where Graham Hill was coming in to land and crashed at Arkley Golf club. ( there’s a plaque on the first hole marking the place). ; If you did decide to do one. I’d be happy to send you a pic of this for your video. 2. Was also the home of Capital Radio’s flying eye. Not a bad eatery there also. Which always helps! Just a thought. Love your stuff. Must admit haven’t a clue re the technical stuff but I just love aviation in all its forms.

Questions Will the new development proposals include Extension of threshold fence to an extended stubb on runway 27 threshold to protect walkers on the ground ? Will they at last be acquiring land at the end of runway 27 from public car parking for a lake and sand pit for aircraft over running the runway ? This way flagged up in the CAA report into te crash of Insarma binlarden family jet which crashed at the end of runway 27. Please note that the pathfinder cafe was named after the mosquitos which took off in ww2 to proceed the bombers to spot the targets. It is claimed that they also took part in the Ameon raid at the close of the war.

Having done both my PPL(H) and CPL(H) from Blackbushe it feels funny to think that anyone would think it's daunting. I guess once you are used to operating from any airfield its pretty easy to do...

The amount of noise abatement in the uk is frankly ridiculous, as long as you follow rule 5 what can they do?

It’s always really weird to watch the exploits of my old plane up on RU-vid. Nice to see it’s being put to good use.

Very interesting history, thanks for sharing. I found Blackbushe as friendly and accommodating GA airfield when visiting in November.

Dear Jon thanks for your report super video on Blackbush very nice to watch, takes me back to aldershot in the 1950s when i was 10 years old my fathers mate was in the Parachute Regiment , i am 81 now and they used blackbush airport. regards from Mike

Great episode Jon, crystal clear explanations.

Another great video perfectly executed Jon. Nice landing too, leaving that bit of power on really makes a difference in the arrow. Will have to visit Blackbush when I'm a bit braver!!

29 pages!!! More than the pa28 POH

Enjoyed this sequence very much, and can see you'd make a fine instructor too. In Oz, we enjoy en-routes at twice the altitude or more (you always seem so low!), and none of this "pass your message" (which you've mostly already done) nonsense. But Oh, Jon, what we'd give for the airfield cafes and snack bars. Our regional GA fields are usually tumbleweed country. A cafe latte with a Cumberland sausage sandwich post arrival would be heaven!

The biggest problem with Blackbushe is following slow microlight traffic in the circuit there is little room on runway 25 to make a wide circuit or join the final approach track wide enough to stay behind the slow traffic. The result is usualy a go-around or if they are busy several go-around. It is a place that can have its difficulty’s if you are flying a fast(ish) aircraft as your approach closing speed on the microlights can be 25Kts+. If you can get your approach speed below about 65Kts the place is not much of a problem.

I’m a fan of BB ever since discovering it as an alternative to white Waltham and its lousy grass runways. I always arrive IFR from the north from EGSC. Although it’s Class G, it has its own complications if it’s IMC, you want to hold on to Farnborough’s traffic’s service as long as you can if the clag is low which can leave you late changing across to BB. A super little airport well worth a visit. WARNING - Just one observation, on my last visit I was parked against the fence; adjacent to the tower and behind where you were parked. There are tie down points here - the ropes were loose and the potential to get them caught in the prop was a real danger. I parked and retied them all, but clearly, not everyone leaves them in a safe state. Could have been a very expensive visit.

Nice flight and video.

Another airfield operating after losing a complex planning issue - I wonder John what you think about the final destruction of the WW1 Grade 2* Listed Hangar at Old Sarum Airfield. Another example of a once glorious leisure flyer base/destination embroiled in a long-running battle between locals, the council and the owner/developer, that shows no sign of abating anytime soon. I wonder if you could also give your impression of how “spotter”- friendly/welcoming to those of us who enjoy parking up and watching airfield operations from the comfort/convenience of our own cars? Thank you for another interesting take on Blackbushe from a quite highly qualified PPL holder’s perspective.

Wow, this channel is awesome, feels like I am watching a BBC show. Everything is well produced. I've definitely subscribed ❤. Thanks for the quality content sir.

We Taxied a 210 over the model aeroplane strip at Mt Beauty in Australia. Got an earful.

I’d forgotten how complicated VFR flying is. It sort of takes away the fun.

Join for the east I use the intercity route , basically follow the east -west rail way line through farnbought north air space

I Really enjoyed this video. As a student at Blackbushe, I found it extremely interesting.

Sounds like flying VFR into the EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, WI USA during the EAA fly-in, during which the airport is the busiest airport in the world.

Enjoyed the vid. Could you give any info or a video about how to avoid gliders at lasham when coming around that way? I'd be worried transiting anywhere near Lasham on a good gliding day, could use some details.

Great video Jon, would you mind just a little flurry of an overview on how you deice etc? I just assumed for an SEP it’d be a credit card and scrape job, amazed you actually got the fluid out. Is that normal?

I like the route you took. I would have done the same thing. Slow it down and keep ahead of the aeroplane.

Cleared to cross Farnborough zone at the end yet not cleared to cross, only cleared to J4 on the M3...that’s ambiguous!

With Redhill having a tower do you not need to request start up there?

It’s difficult to comprehend how much of Blackbushe’s complexity is caused by the UK’s non-integrated and borderline dysfunctional ATC system. In any other mordern country, Farnborough would coordinate with Blackbushe Tower and hand you off during your zone transit, and after that it’d be the same as an approach to any other towered airport. But because every UK ATC unit is an island, and none of them talk to each other, the controllers at Blackbushe don’t know you’re coming even though you’ve already been talking to the controllers at Farnborough, so you have to overshoot by miles and sort out your entry to Blackbushe from the north while you’re trying to work around noise abatement restrictions. Any GA pilot in the UK should spend at least a couple of weeks flying around in another country with an integrated ATC system just so you can all see how much easier it is. It’s hard to lobby through AOPA for change and improvement when everyone thinks the UK is *normal* and can’t see how much better it could be. On a happier note: My experiences of GA in the UK completely concur with your comment about how one thing the UK does very well is airport cafes. Absolutely superb. Look after them well, they won’t come back if you lose them.

According to a historic England publication about wartime airfields the FIDO system talked about in this video had a typical fuel consumption of 90,000 gallons an hour !

Great video, but also a testament to the completely unnecessary complicated UK airspace. 4 different squawks in a 20 min flight is just crazy.

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Pfff, still looks prohibitively complex to me…

In the US you usually have to fly for an hour to find an hour to find a cafe, hence the $100 hamburger.

for the read back ... just remember CRAFT .... Clearance Limit Route Altitude Frequency Transponder Code Standard for anyone with an IFR ... useful to know if you don't have an IFR (yet) as all clearances will be read back in that order

Man the way that airspace forces you Brits to fly low and all the forests and urban areas around with almost no options is pretty shity in case of any kind of problem, I have to say.

Can see you becoming more and more a pro pilot. Great instructional video.