Landing on a skinny little hybrid runway!

Concrete, asphalt, grass, water there's loads of runway surfaces however this time we land on something different.
Join me on this fun flight from North Weald EGSX to Darley Moor with explanations of the Transponder Mandatory Zone or TMZ at London Stansted and a transit of the EGNX or East Midlands controlled airspace.
Golf Foxtrot 22 channel here / @golffoxtrot22
My name is Terry Kent and I am a General Aviation PPL private pilot operating out of North Weald EGSX about 12 miles to the north east of London in the UK. Short Field is my channel focused on the lighter side of General Aviation including flight and airfield reviews, equipment unboxing and review plus all things private pilot related. I use various cameras to record my videos including GoPro and Insta 360 and stills and edit them in Adobe Premiere Pro, I am an animator as well and often use animations to describe situations more clearly I use Blender and Adobe After Effects for these. I always attempt to post my videos in the highest possible quality, normally 4k.
I fly a 2011 Pipersport two seat single engine aircraft that is also known as the PS28 or SportCruiser in the USA (America) it is known under the FAA as an LSA or Light Sport Aircraft and can be flown on a very basic license. In the UK it is a Part 21 airplane which requires a full licence but it's generally cheap to run, affordable maintenance and great value for money. It cruises at 100 to 105 knots and has superb short take off and landing or STOL capabilities. I visit farm strips, back country and short airfields, some of them dangerous and I try not to crash :-), as well as international airports and try to learn something new every time I fly.
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[@FlyingDarkLord]

I love the animations you do! All adds to the quality of your videos sir!

[@GolfFoxtrot22]

Thanks for the shout out and it was a pleasure to host and finally meet you in person.

[@ChrisFlies]

Lovely video Terry, always nice to see lots of options to land if you're willing to look, makes flying so much more fun.

[@ainsleystones4600]

Oh my lord! A couple of weeks ago, after 10 years off flying lessons, I thought "I fancy trying an Ikarus. They have one at Darley Moor!" Imagine my...ummmm...."surprise" when I saw the hard runway!! Worse still (or better still?) the instructor said that I was going to do the landing! Jeez. It's an experience! 🤣

[@jakobjarl7113]

Been following your channel for a year or so while training for my PPL, it has truly been an inspiration. Got my PPL the other day, looking forward to experience the skies.

[@ShortField]

Wow that is amazing congratulations Captain. Can you please send me your address via my email . Thank you again for the kind comments 👍👍👍

[@porkorosso7885]

You landed on a carpet! 😂. Nice video and great graphics. Thanks VB.

[@bjorn2625]

You might have thought there were too many “errs” in your phraseology but it was extremely helpful for following along for a noob like me.

[@stevenstyles7602]

Terry Excellent as always, don’t apologize for “uming and erring”, we all do it, especially when you get a distraction like the transponder issue you had. It would be interesting to see you’re SkyDemon log trace, with speeds etc.

[@timesquare5473]

Terry amongst your many videos that was particularly informative 👍 Awaiting your visit to Clench common in the future.

[@flyingkub]

My goodness that Giles chap is all over the place not just confined to his own channel.

[@GolfFoxtrot22]

Haha, I was at my day job. 😂

[@thermaljumper]

Great watch. My home airfield!

[@glennwatson]

My local airfield is grass. We definitely get a lot of mud this time of year in the winter. TMZ sounds like our class echo airspace.

[@jamesgodfreyltd6605]

Brilliant video, I really appreciate you sharing , particularly the things that don’t go to plan and what action you take and why.. ie Transponder dimming just as you need it.. orbits till you fix it.. genius! Also sharing transiting TMZ etc.. brilliant! Thank you

[@ShortField]

Thank you James.

[@sarahcolliver7650]

That was really good to watch. Love how informative it is too. I’m glad to see you are human with the “Ums and urhs” !🤣. It makes me want to come back to Uk to fly. A wonderful way to see the country.

[@markallisonparamotor]

Great stuff Terry, I'd love to pop in to Darley Moor myself on the paramotor.

[@musoseven8218]

Nice to see you both together ✌️👍😊 Another great video, with pro-animations too, superb as always 👍👍💜 That all weather runway was very sporting wasn't it😄😄😄😲😲✌️👍💜

[@ShortField]

Thank you, as always.

[@InducedBank]

Nice quick visit to Darley Moor! Brilliant vid once again Terry, well done sir!! Note to self, must learn to do the animations - oh, and I suck at voice-overs 🤣🤣🤣

[@ess64cee]

'Terry's Umms and Ahhs' 😵‍💫, it just takes one distraction doesn't it !? Made me feel better/encouraged about some of my performances with Heathrow and Farnborough, so thx for that ! (I won't be publishing mine needless to say.)

[@patrickmckowen2999]

Great vid, well except the part with Giles 🤣

[@GolfFoxtrot22]

Haha, cheers Patrick.

[@flyingmissionary]

Lovely little adventure there Terry. Taking it from ShortField to well- SkinnyField! 😁

[@ShortField]

Lol thanks Dollar.

[@Av.Martin]

Love these vids, you really get to see the GA side of the UK!!! Love it!!!

[@ShortField]

Thank you so much.

[@michaelmiklosofficial]

Looks fun for sure

[@ThePhobicFlyer]

Brilliant vid as always Terry with the usual fantastic production quality! Thanks for the intro to Giles's channel!! If you are ever near Glos pop in for a coffee! Not a shortfield although they do have a grass strip and would be great to catch up mate! If you do it on a Saturday, you'll be on the live stream! 😀👍

[@ShortField]

Might take you up on that Andy, thank you.

[@kevchilton908]

An adventurous choice of venue, Terry, well played sir! Giles also wants me to drop into Darley sometime… but I don’t think I’ll try that runway in the Rockwell just yet 😬 A very entertaining video… as always 👌👏👏👏

[@GolfFoxtrot22]

Hi Kev, the grass is perfect now. I flew past Tatenhill on a Nav lesson today.

[@kevchilton908]

@@GolfFoxtrot22 Fantastic Giles! I hope you missed the thunderstorms… Tatenhill appears to have been carpet-bombed this evening 😆👍

[@GolfFoxtrot22]

@@kevchilton908 we left Fisherwick at 1700 so landed back with plenty of time. It's been quite nice all day, just a bit hot, even in the Flexwing.

[@kevchilton908]

@@GolfFoxtrot22 And very enjoyable… I bet! 👌

[@GolfFoxtrot22]

@@kevchilton908 some days it's just hard to put into words, but yes, a lovely end to a busy day.

[@lifesajourneyclub]

You should come and visit us at Kernan Airfield, Northern Ireland. You get everything, a narrow runway, obstacles and a lovely gradient.

[@ShortField]

It's on my list. You Irish, honestly and Kernan is one of the easier ones :-)

[@brushitoff503]

Fantastic stuff, love watching your adventures!

[@robertshaver4432]

Well... that was fun! Landing on a motorcycle trail lol.

[@ShortField]

:-)

[@q.e.d.9112]

All I can say is Foxtrot Yankee would be an even better registration.😊

[@ShortField]

Thanks appreciate that :-)

[@jeffbridges666]

You almost came over my house, 4 miles due north of EGNX

[@coeniegee8370]

Excellent trip Terry - again lovely scenery -I am so jealous of all the lovely historic old WW11 airfields you have in your area to visit and which has actually been kept servicable with their deep history - we don't have that privilege down here in SA - enjoy mate! Safe skies! From ZA!

[@ShortField]

Many thanks Coenie.

[@GeoTactics]

The maps, overlays and animations are really amazing.

[@ShortField]

Thank you so much for the kind comment.

[@maxflight777]

Your graphics for the Stansted TMZ ! Wow 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@ShortField]

Thank you 👍

[@maxflight777]

Beautifully filmed sir! 20 years ago we used to enjoy a day out to …“Shotteswell International “ ! (I had a share in a Rallye 110ST, and then a Warrior) Darley Moor was form motorcycle racers ! Lots of hard guys, good personalities but usually with a limp !

[@ShortField]

:-)

[@Payne2view]

A typically informative video from you. I suspect the Astroturf is what makes the runway look narrower than it is. I know they are trying to preserve it but a bit of weeding of the rest of it would possibly help too.

[@halfrhovsquared]

Damn! That IS a narrow strip. I've seen wider centre-lines !!

[@jaymagnum650]

Runway Type: mix of every surface types. Lol.

[@kkiwi54]

It's interesting for me to see the differences in flying microlights in the UK compared with here in New Zealand. Here are some of the things I've noticed about your flights - More atc comms. More noise abatement requirements. You can fly over built up areas (microlights here can't) You say dead side, we say non-traffic. You say "in the overhead", we just say overhead. Lots very similar though. It would be interesting to break down your typical costs - hangarage, insurance, club fees, medical etc 🤔

[@ShortField]

In the UK this aircraft is not a microlight it is a Group A aircraft and you can't fly it on a microlight licence. We only just got the 600kg upgrade to microlights this year and it is only for new models and can't be re-classified retrospectively. As a factory built certified aircraft with a C of A our Sport Cruiser has lots of advantages over a microlight class aircraft, however we also have alot more costs :-(

[@kkiwi54]

@Short Field Your Sport Cruiser could be in the Microlight or "Lightsport" category here. Lightsport is a kind of halfway house between Microlight and GA. Sucky that your new Microlight rules can't be applied retrospectively

[@grahamlees4394]

so Terry, you didn't get your first experience in a chair in the air.... another time perhaps 👍

[@colinbartram3467]

You got an overhead transit at East Midlands!!!!

[@ShortField]

Even though I sounded like a dork on the radio :-)

[@colinbartram3467]

@@ShortField my instructor lives for the day he gets to overfly the runway. (I'm based at Derby.)

[@Swaggerlot]

Does Stansted have primary radar any more? They wouldn't see you anyway if no transponder. Radio chatter is such a pain.

[@supaquickgpr]

I didn't recognise the AstroTurf as a runway when I went there initially. It looks way too thin

[@SoaringGuy]

Cracking video as always, thanks Terry. Interesting on the RT. Could the added workload of the just solved transponder issue have been a factor?

[@ShortField]

Thank you, just so bad at RT I'm not blaming the transponder :-)

[@Lukeflips]

Always wondered, when you transit across a live runway (East Midlands) is there not the risk of a potential go around from another aircraft coming close to you? Or can you only fly over when another aircraft is looking to take off?

[@Taladar2003]

The link to the Golf Foxtrot 22 channel in the description seems broken (404).

[@ShortField]

Thanks for letting me know I’ll fix it but if you search GolfFoxtrot22 on KZbin you should find him. He has just posted a great series about flying a flex around Scotland 👍🏼

[@hellopsp180]

GOOPY

[@rajamasaud1462]

Awesome VDO.....I fly from Northweald.....I m interested in shared ownership of sports cruiser.....plz advise

[@jamesnoonan7450]

A quik question as I've never been behind the controls of a sport cruiser. (Most of my time is in the Piper Tomahawk even as an instructor). Is your aircraft equipped with an autopilot ? It looks like it might be.

[@astromatt75]

"How many errs" I was just thinking how good your radio skills are! I would love to learn to fly but the radio communications puts me off. I would be asking them to repeat way too many times

[@ShortField]

I am terrible :-)

[@chrislove8612]

Nice vid Terry as always! Which phone mount is that you're using here?

[@ShortField]

Thanks Chris it's a Ram X-grip.

[@chrislove8612]

@@ShortField Thanks Terry - I have the Ram X grip but the one in your vid looks different? Looks like it clasps at the top and bottom rather than with the X

[@chadvader974]

The radio calls side of things seems really difficult especially with my aging brain....

[@ShortField]

No it's fine just I make it look more complicated that it is :-)

[@ChapatiMan]

Can you do a video where you fly over London? Are you even allowed to fly over the city?