Bourne Park (Aerofab) Procedures

Arrivals by Air    

By Air

Those wishing to fly-in to Bourne Park may do so, however it is strictly PPR even at weekends. It is marked on the Southern half-mil chart and details can also be found in Lockyer's Farm strip Guide.  You should also note that this is an unlicensed grass strip and all arrivals and departures are entirely at the pilot's own discretion.  The landing fee (a packet of biscuits) will be strictly enforced.  The quality of your greeting will be directly proportional to the quality of your biscuits!

The runway is 11/29, grass, approximately 700 metres long, 550 ft amsl, with a roughly 2% down slope on runway 29. There is a windsock in the middle of the field.  Use standard non-radio join procedures. The surface is good. Where the original runway has been extended through the tree-lines at each end, small dips with rougher ground exist (100m in from each end, i.e. where trees stood). Use only the mowed areas, i.e. runway and taxiway areas. There is a windsock halfway along the runway. Keep a good lookout, especially for Middle Wallop military helicopters and  Thruxton traffic. For reference, the industrial estate on the east side of Andover is 3nm South of the field. The strip is difficult to spot when approaching from the North as it is between two large woods and there is a large white house in the middle of the southern wood. A well defined line marks the southern boundary of the northern wood. There is a small mast approximately 1.5nm NW of strip.

Please be 'neighbour friendly' by keeping noise to a minimum and avoiding overflying local houses and farms where possible, but don't forget basic airmanship:
 
 
 

Caution: there is noticeable windshear on runway 11 when the wind is moderate to strong and from an easterly direction.

Arrivals By Road

If If you plan to arrive by car, find your way to ANDOVER, then follow the signs to NEWBURY via the A343 (not A34). Pass through the village of ENHAM ALEMEIN and a further
half mile you will pass a cross-road. Keep going and you'll then enter a tunnel of trees, stay alert and there will be a small gravel/muddy lay-by on your left closely followed by double white lines in the middle of the road. Indicate RIGHT just before the bus stop and turn into the drive which has a small house called "Doles Cottage" at the entrance. If, you go down a steep hill and reach HURSTBOURNE TARRANT you've overshot, do a 180.