The fact that you can just walk in and make a coffee and sign the guest book when nobody’s about, and that how you talk about it is like it’s how all the little grass strip fields are… I never would have expected that! Very cool!

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Some are better than others, must have a kettle.

@milesbrown8016

Ай бұрын

Awesome. Well done

You are living the dream my friend, what beautiful country side you have access to spending time around.

Great flight tutorial and a marvelous sense of humor.

This is the best type of flying

Fantastic video! I hope you know that you are inspiring the next generation of pilots and keeping GA alive. You may have sparked aviation curiosity in those children.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind comment, so appreciated.

Nice to have an audience.

Hi Terry, nice video and glad you enjoyed the visit to our Farm. Next time you approach 02 from the West, extend your base until you are clear of the village and then approach final over the open farm land which means you have a slight dog leg turn to the right just before the campsite and then touch down. This avoids overflying properties in Ripple. Look forward to seeing you an your next visit.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for letting me visit and on such a busy afternoon, it was a really great day. I realise I got a few things wrong in the video, like the approach for which I apologise. I would love to come back and do it properly and to say "hi", it was such an honour. Hopefully I did a good job of showing how wonderful your farm is and what great ice-cream you make. I didn't get the guys name who cleared the runway, I thought it was you first of all but then realised it wasn't, he was very nice and so helpful, please pass on my thanks. Thanks again Richard really appreciated.

They looked like very interesting small strips Terry. Excellently produced as always and a joy to watch. I feature ice cream in mine tomorrow!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim, I'll be settling down around 8:45am to watch with a coffee.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

I think you had the same flavour as me as well :-)

Love your friendly laid back way of presenting portrays a fun way to fly

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Thank you but I hate my accent and I'm always uming and arghing :-)

You are certainly producing a detailed list of the UKs farm strips. Loving the inclusion of checks. Haha, yes the "You can always go around song", brilliant.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Giles.

@stratotramp6243

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty handy as a recce to what's operating.

Another great video Terry. well done and thanks for sharing with us. 👍🏻

Wow, this channel is gold.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers.

Great, fun and different video!! Cool to see the country-side!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Sure is Doug. Thanks for watching and your valued comment.

Great video Terry! Think I'd have to go for rum and raisin though....!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob, that's my wife's fav :-)

Good lord it looks tight at Ripple, especially with the high crops! Incredible fun though. If only I could manage it in the PA28 😬

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Noel. Yes bit near the limit for a PA28-140 but I reckon a light 180 could do it.

@landinggear0018

Жыл бұрын

Hello

@murrayhelmer8941

11 ай бұрын

@@ShortField I agree. I’m sure a 180 could! 🙂

@wmffmw1854

11 ай бұрын

Hardly, plenty of room!

I visited Solley’s this summer for an ice cream. I didn’t know there was a landing strip until I saw the hangar. I had a chat with the owner who is a super friendly gentleman. I hope to land there someday.

Very Enjoyable. 😀

I LOVE short fields! The thing I fly is off the ground in 80 metres! NICE FACILITIES I'll have to fly down there for a bomb dump. The second field a bloke probably staggered back from the local looking for his caravan and thinks " crikey I have had too many my van has grown wings!"🤣😂🤣 WHAT A GREAT CHANNEL!! Pop up to Popham! There's often Spitfires around as they are are restored nearby

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I do visit Popham quite a bit.

My hat off to you sir nice landing thanks for taking us along for the flight from USA,Ohio 👍🇺🇸 😎

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you sir for the wonderful comment, so appreciate this. Ohio is an amazing place to fly you are so lucky.

Thanks, a very interesting video. Lots of fun. Camera angles had me gripping the seat a couple of times though! 🤣 20+ years ago I used to fly from White Waltham up to a disused tarmac strip in Bucks. It was privately owned and needed a phone call for permission and instructions as it was also a model aircraft strip. Approach with lights on and overfly at 300ft above giving modellers the warning that the next approach would be a full stop. Overfly was always interesting as the modellers would fly alongside so keeping straight was a necessity. Sunday would see a market at the end of the strip to visit and get snacks. Take off with an immediate right turn to avoid overflying the market. Loved it.

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Great comment. There's quit a few model clubs on these strips and our engines are not the nosiest so we normally do as you did at 500ft. Thanks again Rick.

I came to KZread to fix our Garage door and Stumbling over your chanel and loved it, excellent and interesting watch thank you.....just to add Garage door still not fixed !!!

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard! That is so funny, thank you so much great amusing comment.

Love these farm strip videos Terry, really useful and interesting with lots of great info on visiting, cheers!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much comments like this are so appreciated. Top man.

Hollym just north of Hull is a great little strip where the end of some runways have fallen into the sea. When you land you can park next to the life-sized plastic cow!

Living up to your channel name,,mint choc chip for me or just plain old vanilla, it never tires.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mikey :-)

Great bit of flying

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Used to find all grass runways in the Minneapolis MN surrounding area much fun!!

Haha loved Solley's Farm, what a cool place with the corn. Asking you to put the plane in the car park as well... 😂😂

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

😁 that was a great day :-)

What an incredible adventure. Exceptional piloting skills! Thank you for sharing. Jeff (senior citizen, can no longer fly.)

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

What a wonderful comment so appreciated. Thank you

Awesome trip there. Thanks for the ride along.

I really enjoy your videos Terry and of course your pictures. May have to get checked back out in the 152 and visit some smaller strips.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Murray, if you fly in anything that can't get into sub 500m strips you're missing alot of airfields.

Just found your channel after developing a lock-down fascination with US back-country flying videos. What a joy to see it alive and well in the UK. Green strips in our green and pleasant land certainly are tough to spot! Great content of an area I cycled in my youth- thanks.

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Thank you Julian most appreciated comment sir.

Great video again, thanks Terry! I feel your pain as well - decent coffee and then a pee is always my first thought when landing away! 😂

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your great comment and support. I have to admit, as I've got older I've had to decline coffee sometimes when visiting airfields (not because I don't want one) but mainly because I'm getting the bladder of a little girl :-)

Hi Terry, lovely video just seeing the smile on your face said it all. Love seeing the small airfields, basic but simply beautiful and as a Kent Lad I can't argue really enjoyed it, looking forward to your next offering.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve, I don't normally show much of my ugly mug but feel I need to add a bit more of my personality to these videos. Thank you so much for the kind comments buddy.

Great Video, I really enjoyed the Tour around Kent, thanks for sharing

Those looked like two great fields to visit during what looked like a great day for flying. Thanks for sharing.

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

It was! Thanks Rob.

Love your vids… personal, honest, entertaining and educating!!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Manu but I'm no instructor.

Brilliant video Terry, yet again demonstrating both you and the PS28s remarkable capabilities.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Chris for your always appreciated support. My next video is all about the Sport Cruiser :-)

@crisjpalmer

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShortField well it just so happens I managed to blag a few hours in the righthand seat of a Sportcruiser........ and I am in love 😍, if only my lack of flying ability could do the aircraft justice !!! It will be interesting to watch the video compare it against your one, with all the "Bells & Whistles"

Grass runways are great as long as they are well maintained, A friend took his Miles Messenger to an airstrip in Wales, and taxiing off the runway, dropped a wheel into a hole that should not have been there, and shock loaded the prop, and broke the main spar, the end of the aircraft.

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Yes some are pretty rough.

You sure earned that icecream at Solley's , Terry!...offset approach, caravans, cars, kids, cornfields... Glad there were no tearaways!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

The ones that messed around got the stones Kyle :-)

@MrKylehornsey

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShortField I'm sure you were ready to shut her down real quick. The owners should have had that strip taped off hey. The gore and legal implications should a kid run into a prop are scary.

Can you literally just land at these clubs, drink a tea and piss off? That's so cool! I wish I could fly 😭 one day!

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Yep although sometimes there's no tea, or in fact anything :-)

Really enjoying your videos. Nice challenging strip. Keep it up!

Now, that's a fun day in sport aviation! Nice video, as always. Thanks for sharing.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

I loved that day. Thank you

That was brilliant - really showing off the best of Britain! Did my PPL in '89 and Compton Abbas near Shaftesbury was my favourite x/c destination. Beautiful countryside, some interesting fly-ins and a restaurant too!

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Amazing! I love the west country. Are you still flying?

@Tigerskys-6699

11 ай бұрын

@@ShortField Yes still at it! On 320s helping alleviate the US pilot shortage!

Brilliant. Thanks Terry. That final in to Solley's looked pretty scary to me. Nice one.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

That was a memorable strip Ralph. Thank you for the kind comment, really appreciated.

@ShortField I’ve just come across your channel, really great stuff. Just nearing the end of my PPL training with cross country and skills left. Already developing my bucket list of places to go. Both of these strips are now on there. Thanks, look forward to watching more.

Nice Video - thank you for making it - it is a joy landing on grass strips, especially if you can find a creamery - well played, Sir. Cheers! Mike in New Mexico USA '47 Stinson 108-1

That first landing was a long long final, could have landed a 747 from that far out, good fun flying.

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

I know, 9 miles ILS established :-)

Spent twenty years ... essentially ... doing this everyday! As an ag-driveer daily working off 'unimproved' strips in the middle of nowhere, was a daily challenge, and thrill ... some of the time. More than once, did it where there was no "strip"! Just open ground. In a Bull Stearman no less!! Super Cubs made it a piece of cake. Sooo much fun ... !! Happy for you that you are 1) good enough ... and 2) can get away with it!! Usually some jackass looking over your shoulder telling you, "you can't do that"!!! LOL Best wishes for many more of these 'happy landings'!!!

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Sorry for the late reply. Wow I think that's the difference between you pro's and us armatures, this is unusual for us but for you it's a piece of cake. Thank you captain.

What a lovely place 😀 the toilet…❤️😆😆 brilliant! Thank‘s for sharing

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Wow...Brilliant...I want to be a pilots mate...Looks great fun...

This is fascinating, I never knew there was this niche in piloting as nobody ever talks about flying to and from farm strips in the US. Glad I could take a peak into this wonderful different world, I never even knew they would have facilities at such strips- even if a little barebones!

Done this at night on a undulating grass runway at the farm in Minnesota USA much fun!!!

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Wow!

Hi Terry. Loved you parking in the car park!

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

Enjoyable, careful aviation.

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Certainly fun.

Grass field hopping is one of my favorite flying activities, and your videos do an excellent job portraying the fun and challenges involved. I always enjoy watching them when I'm away flying the Airbus but missing flying the Citabria off a grass strip.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers John and always appreciate a comment from a pro pilot. Thanks again Captain.

@johnconnor818

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShortField judging by the caliber of your videos and your attention to safety, I would say you’re as much a professional as any of us who cash a paycheck for flying. Looking forward to more of your adventures!

Love your videos man! You should get a logo printed on some cups and leave one at these fields for when you return.

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Cheers Joseph lovely and appreciated comment sir.

Great videos. Informative and fun and really look forward to them.

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Martin really appreciate the kind comments.

I really enjoyed watching your video fantastic.

What a very pleasing piece of viewing this was. Many thanks indeed. Once a pilot and then a dad, now I have a 13yo son who is flying mad and an 11yo daughter who shows some interest, and can't wait to show them this tonight. One day I'll get back up there - too busy at the moment. However, in the meantime it's lovely to have good people with great production skills and an entertaining story, just like you, to live vicariously through! Cheers from Sydney, David

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

What a wonderful comment so appreciated. Thank you David.

Great video Terry 👌🏻 I’ve been into Ripple a few times now and ice cream was a great incentive to get Karen to come along for her first land away! Great little airfield and Steve is a smashing chap. Keep the videos coming, they’re great 👍🏻

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Trev, certainly a great experience and thank you again for your kind comments and support.

Great vid, I was at Solleys yesterday. The ice cream is the best, Easy strip for a Quik

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Corn must be high or has it been cut Gary?

So nice. When I was flying my ultralight in the US in South Florida back in the 1980's, I would drop in at a farm strip that was also a berry farm. They sold the best strawberry milkshakes around and I and others would fly back while sipping our wonderful shakes and a basket of berries on our laps. I wonder if Burrs Berry Farm is still there. If so then drop on in and have a treat. 😀

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Cheers Mark

@marknesselhaus4376

10 ай бұрын

@@ShortField Thanks, I have many fond memories from those flying days. I keep my feet on the ground now ( health/age) but it is wonderful to remember back to those warm afternoon adventures 40 years ago. Cheers to you as well 😀

I shall add Solley's to my note pad as a place to visit. Im sure the R22 would get an audience too.

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Can you fly inverted and cut the crops down a bit while you're there :-)

That was way cool and the ice cream looked amazing.

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite flights ever.

Great clip! Love dropping into small strips, and how well you use VFR to make sure you have the field lined up for a nice safe landing! Keep it in the air.

Enjoyed your video a lot! Still training for PPL, I'm on solo 4 now, hope to be able to join into these kind of adventures soon. Following you to see more! Keep it up!

Hi Terry, really enjoyed watching this episode. Great work 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Lee

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Lee. It was an enjoyable vid to make. Your support is just awesome.

Really enjoy your videos Terry. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I’ve not flown real world for nigh on 25 years now but enjoy PC flight sims these days. I’m starting to visit some of the strips you fly in MSFS. Thanks for the inspiration!

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I love MSFS most of the little strips are on there although until they sort out that big tree scale issue some are not realistic. Thank you for the lovely comments.

@caaront

11 ай бұрын

I am hoping they do in MSFRS 2024. @@ShortField

❤ great video Terry, your pleasure of flying into those strips clearly comes over in the video. I’ve done Harringe a few times and you had it easy - you didn’t have to do a low pass to clear the sheep off the runway and then hope that they don’t wander back on when you’re landing … definitely adds to the challenge factor! Ripple is on my to-do list, even more so after watching your flight there.

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Geoff, hopefully bump into you soon.

@grejen711

Жыл бұрын

Haha.. I did have to wait for Elk to clear the field at CYJA this summer. However, with a paramotor I wasn't concerned about them getting in the way upon landing.

Love your version of the $100 Hamburger ... I honestly can say I have never heard of someone landing in a farm where the ice cream is sourced and made. Absolutely brilliant video! Thanks for allowing us to tag along ... And I echo the comment by @Droladnap about inspiring the next generation of GA pilots. Thanks for what you are doing.👍

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Sorry for the late reply and thank you so much sir.

Both interesting strips, the former very pleasant, the latter, very interesting. Did I notice overhead wires near to those two trees on finals? Thanks for sharing, love that you take your own coffee! I'd take a flask😆😆😆

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, yes good spot, I didn't see those wires until I watched the video back, they are always my biggest concern. I have actually thrown up before when I drank a coffee with off-milk in it at a strip once, since then I always have a few sachet's of decent stuff in my flight bag. Flask is a good idea too especially when they don't even have a kettle.

@musoseven8218

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Terry, thanks for the reply, as always youre welcome - thanks for posting. Yeah I did wonder about those wires, they were almost invisible! Bit hairy that. That would always be my concern. If they can't be buried, in the past they could have brightly coloured sleeving put on them, do they still do that near to small airfields? 🤔🤔 Off milk? Yuk! Been there done that too. Some strips the toilets etc were pretty grim back in the day - at least we didn't have SARS2 to contend with though 🙄🙄🤡😆☹️😆 - that first bog looked mint, so did the kitchen😉👍👍 That second strip? Remarkable never seen owt like it!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

@@musoseven8218 yes amazed with the quality of the toilet at Harringe :-)

@musoseven8218

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍😉😆😆😆👍👍

Flying in the sky & above the fields where the Battle of Britain was fought must be an amazing experience.

Great video! Probably a bit too far for you, but I noticed on a recent walk that there is a short field at Newnham in Hertfordshire. Looks like an interesting strip! All the best and thanks for the vids. Rob

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob. I had a look on the charts for that area and there's nothing listed, I can see on Google Maps there's what looks like a prepared area of a field with two short runways on it less than 1km to the north of Newnham here 52.02917101374315, -0.18703135352709027 probably a farmers private ad-hoc strip. Have you seen the strip at Graverley?

@robe6723

Жыл бұрын

@@ShortField I’ve tried to reply with the location of Newnham but the comment won’t show - yes, I had a look at graveley after watching one of your vids 👍

awe... the $100 ice cream 🙂

Beautiful Views. Cheers From Pelion, South Carolina. USA.

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind comment, US is the best place to fly GA.

Great video Terry, nice to see how well these strips are set up, tidy mindset aids safe operations. I thought you'd have to have Raspberry ripple.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gordan, I did wonder if they named the farm after a Raspberry RIPPLE. The field was immaculate, there was no where to leave a landing fee or a donation but to be fair they were mega busy so I don't think they needed my fiver. I agree, keep relaxed and always have a way out.

Just found your channel. I live the Victorian high country in Australia. Lots of little country farm strips around. Where I live there is a public grass strip 600m beside a lake with a 5 minute walk into town, plus a private 1200m bitumen strip for ag work and fire fighting ops. Surrounded by mountains, the scenery is beautiful. If you're ever down under, come pay us a flying visit. Would like to catch up. 👍

Beautifull

I thought this was short field program. I've landed and taken off from Crop Duster Strips in the Florida Everglades meant for high power Stearman's. Flying a Cessna 152. This strip was half the length recommended for the A/C with about three foot clearance on the wing tips. The take off was a high performance run to clear trees at the end. Normally take off roll for 152 was 750ft. I had just over 400. This skill gave me options in emergencies.

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Good skills sir but we're not supposed to be taking part in an extreme sport :-)

Great video

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Great one Terry!! He he!! I've got to do this one ....

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely give them a go Mike, perfect for honing those short field skills. Thank you buddy.

Really enjoyable content, congratulations 👏🏼 but can I suggest an arrow edited onto the screen of the strip in the distance when you spot it for those of us watching who just see an infinite amount of agricultural acreage in the far distance 😊

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Thanks John note taken.

It's fantastic to see this sort of flying in the UK, even with our very restricted airspace !! I'd love to give this a try, I wonder if the PA-38 I currently instruct in could handle it ? Not with its flimsy landing struts, I suspect 😅

This made me so happy, and incredibly, incredibly jealous hahaha

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind comments.

nice one! its interesting to see harringe court farm from above. Im part of the model flying club, and I always enjoy watching the aircraft coming in to land on the airstrip. its cool to finally see it from the pilots perspective.

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

Oh cool I heard Harringe was possibly going to close?

@airorc5141

10 ай бұрын

@@ShortField I'm not entirely sure. I think the site has moved a few times but I dont know whether that's only the model flying club. I think there's word of housing being built in the surrounding fields which would make the area more noise sensitive and kick us out of the site. its already bad enough with just the bike track and a handful of houses down the Vally, but we,ll see. I dont know why they would want to build there but I guess its cheap land to buy up. there's going to be no country side left soon in Kent! 😂

Those crops!!

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Need a heli to chop them down :-)

when you sandblasted them, they had the glimpse of a feeling of being at Princess Juliana airport ;) I mean, people go on holidays to Saint Martin for that exact purpose :)

Flying paradise England! I would like to join you with my Cessna 180 *55 some day!

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

That would be fantastic!

This was great. back in the day the best farm strip fun I had was with a taildragger thruster microlight (and a thermos of tea). What a blast you can have with a tiny taildragger. They don't seem so popular these days. Probably for the best 😂 I could never afford the doors, spent it instead on turning petrol into noise, and crisps. Definitely affordabe flying if there is such a thing.

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

Fantastic.

From Stoke Medway, I saw your earlier vid when you binned it. Always a wise choice if you ain't sure, Please come back and give it another go

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

I'm going back with Dean.

Landed in much tighter . This field is massive

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

I know, but it was a fun strip John.

Really like your airplane and where you fly. Nothing like that in LA area.

Your Ice Cream flavour should have been Raspberry RIPPLE! 😂

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

:-) excellent :-)

The live stock probably think our aircraft are large noisy birds. With your liking for different experiences in your aviating the Ice Cream was never going to be Vanilla

Really useful video and a cracking idea to add it to SkyDemon

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 👍

@2:02 to your left are the industrial units of Lympne Ind est, formally RAF Lympne…. Post war home to Skyways Airline & Dan Air, last used I believe until mid ‘70s when everything went down to Lydd Airport.. On your right, also at 2:02 is the car park to Howlets Port Lympne wildlife zoo…. Didn’t realise Harringe had a strip.. near by here to Folkestone is Pent Farm strip (just north of M20) believe the odd ‘Spit’ flew out of here (recently) Then SW of Ashford is Fridd Farm strip, close to Bethersden… Great video, will subscribe…👍

@ShortField

11 ай бұрын

I love flying this area. Thank you so much for the kind comment and sub really means more than you would think.

Heard of people going for a "£100 burger" before but never a £100 ice-cream. Good tip with the coffee.

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

I actually threw up once when I made a coffee from the on site stuff and used curdled milk, it's a tip I learnt through a bad experience :-) Thanks for the watch and support. I'm hoping to pop into your field soon, I'll let you know when I'm coming.

@stratotramp6243

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShortField I'm up for that. Maybe quick meal at the pub. Or walk round the woods at the back (it's actually an old mustard gas depot but nature has taken over and it's nice woodland now)

16:57 The kid must have been getting attacked with rocks lol. Great video, hoping either this summer or next I can land there.

@ShortField

Жыл бұрын

Deffo go it's a great one to get in your logbook. I blame the kid :-)

I wish you had panned over all the awesome pictures in the bomb shelter more...

@ShortField

10 ай бұрын

:-) I saved them for personal use :-)

Hi Man, I think you should bring a Check-List aboard, in order not to forget setting up the Flaps before takeoff. You almost had a close encounter with those trees the other vídeo. Good vibes! Thank You!

@ShortField

2 жыл бұрын

Great advice, thanks Alfredo