WELLESBOURNE INFORMATION  
(Updated 01-06-10)

• Current Notams affecting the airfield:
  
  NIL
  
  
  
  

• Increasingly, the responsibility for originating a Flight Plan and it's associated messages is being delegated by ATC to aircraft operators. The responsibility for completing all parts of the form, including the addressing, rests with the pilot / operator. The faxing of Flight Plans should only take place if it is not possible to send the Flight Plan using the new online system, either with a personal account, a Flying Club account or in the Control Tower.
  
  http://www.myafpex.co.uk/ (NATS AFPEx training website)
  http://www.flightplanningonline.co.uk (Account set up and login)
  
   

• The Squawk code 0010 has been allocated for aircraft operating outside Birmingham controlled airspace monitoring Birmingham radar freq. This came into effect on the 1st September 2008. The assignment of this code does not imply the provision of a radar service. Please use this system if your routing takes you close to the Birmingham CTA/CTR.

  The current list of UK listening/ conspicuity squawks:

  • 0010 Birmingham 118.050 MHz
  • 0012 Thames Radar/ Gatwick 132.7 MHz / 126.825 MHz
  • 0013 Luton/ Stansted 129.550 MHz / 120.625 MHz
  • 6170 Doncaster 126.225 MHz
  • 7366  Manchester 118.575 MHz
  • 0011 Solent 120.225 MHz 
     
• Avon Air Centre is a new company that has set up at the airfield, operating out of the Take Flight Building. The company offers pleasure flights around the local area, for more information visit http://www.avonaircentre.com           
                                                                                                          
• Latest weather reports from Wellesbourne Airfield are available on http://www.xcweather.co.uk and on http://xcw1.com (faster on mobiles) EGBW METARs are available at http://www.wellesbourneairfield.com/metar.txt