Brimpton Airfield, the home of Brimpton Flying Club and Percival Piston Provost T1
Wasing Lane, Aldermaston, Berkshire, RG7 4LY Clubhouse tel: +44(0)118 971 3822
Email: info@brimpton-airfield.co.uk Website creation by Alan McNeal & Associates www.amav.biz
The strip has easy, unrestricted approaches at both ends, but at just 520 metres long you will need some short strip flying skills. To help us keep our good neighbour status, please avoid over flying the villages of Brimpton, Aldermaston and Woolhampton. For PPR please call the clubhouse telephone, or the airstrip operator Alan House for Prior Permission. Or, if you're flying in the area and fancy dropping in, call up on our radio frequency, 135.125 for joining instructions. If you don't get a reply to the phone, or a radio call, for safety reasons - please don't land.
Limitations
There are some minor limitations on how we operate.
- No overhead joins.
- All circuits to the North. RH on 25, LH on 07
- Don't overfly the AWE Establishment below 2,400' AGL.
For approach to, and departure from Brimpton we prefer you to avoid flying South
of the runway centreline until you are well clear of the AWE boundary. That gives
lots of leeway with no risk of infringement. Brimpton has pages in Pooleys, the AFE
VFR Flight Guide and Lockyear's Farm Strip Guide, so please use them to self-brief
on Brimpton before you take-off, or you can download the PDF airfield flight guide
sheet here...
Brimpton Airfield is 50 miles West of London - halfway between Reading and Newbury in Berkshire - just South of Woolhampton on the A4.
In aviation terms, its just inside the Restricted Area R101(2.4) surrounding the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. Inside R101? Is that allowed? Yes! The airstrip is just inside the Northwest boundary and operates on a 'Special Exemption' from the CAA and we are on excellent terms with the Establishment. Just keep to the rules shown below in Pooleys, the AFE Guide etc..