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Weston Airport

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    And you landed that plane in someone's garden. You are a great pilot!



  • Posts: 0 Dash Odd Actor


    That was Weston back in the day, complete with peacocks sh1t ting on the airframes. Captain DK would dispatch one for his Christmas dinner.



  • Posts: 0 Dash Odd Actor


    A video from memory Lane at Weston. Myself doing short circuits in early 80s in BBJ, trying to avoid the treetops. I remember an incident when one girl was sent on her first solo flight, had been doing multiple short circuits with the instructor just before that, and she was so much on mental-autopilot that she started performing her first solo doing a short circuit until advised to do standard Weston circuits.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    That's a lot of bank angle so close to the ground! Glad you didn't stall it and are here today!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭2011abc


    Is Weston Aerodrome more or less a closed shop now except for flight trainees ?The last time I dropped by even the builders seemed to concede that tales of refurbished and / or new cafes or restaurants were far, far into the future :-( This used be such a vibrant part of the local community .Why is it everything locally that people get their hands on they seem determined to run into the ground ? Liffey Valley parking , the now distant memory of the Orchard Garden Centre cafe , even the new Willow and Wild cafe opposite the GAA Club which opened for a day last month after a 2-3 year closure and promptly shut again ?If anyone could address even the first part of my post I’d be grateful .



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ireland is a very NIMBY friendly country.



  • Registered Users Posts: 32 mylo10


    The restaurant will be re opening soon, it has been delayed by months. I often fly in here and ask. It was recently bought over (the Collinsons brother, who was part of the purchase is very much involved in GA) so they're trying to make it more "GA" friendly. They even reduced the landing fees for small aircraft.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭2011abc


    Any sign of restaurant/cafe etc ?Thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    What's with the increased traffic the last week? Cheltenham? Or am I just imagining it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭2011abc


    New cafe any good?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭2011abc


    Yes ,2011abc , yes it is .The airport owners have invested serious money into making it look plusher inside ( although I miss the big Egyptian-?- lump of marble on entry ) The cafe is really smart inside although like everywhere ( and previous incarnations of this cafe) they could do with more - and maybe more experienced? -staff.Service wasn’t exactly lightning fast at a very quiet time .The food was nice but some items were unavailable due to lack of ingredients which is very 2008-2011( I was once told a medium sized Italian restaurant had no chicken ) Why invest what is clearly hundreds of thousands if not millions and penny pinch with staff wages / staffing levels etc ? Anyway I realise it’s leased out and margins are razor thin with five figure energy bills etc …apologies for rant .

    It’s lovely to see it open again And anyone local will HAVE to check it out .Toilets almost on a par with the palatial green marble ones in Lyons Estate ….!


    Don’t know if it’s the weather or some people making lots of dough or trying to become airline pilots or what but the training Cessnas have never appeared as business .At least three constantly airborne doing touch and gos



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    Any interesting planes due in this week for the bray show? Catalina and mustang maybe?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    Nothing lads?



  • Registered Users Posts: 416 ✭✭Rock Solid


    Anything unusual there today



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    Catalina just flew over. Feck.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    Lots of interesting planes around this morning.



  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 9,956 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Catalina.

    P51 Mustang.

    Breitling wing walkers.

    One of the display teams (Raven or Falcons?)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    Ravens.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    Lads, yis can't be doing that.


    https://www.thejournal.ie/drug-seizure-dublin-5-6238397-Dec2023/



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭breadmond


    Wonder where it came in from? Not a new thing for Weston if rumours are to believed



  • Posts: 0 Dash Odd Actor


    That will be less future “business” for Weston, with the Gardai busting a regular operation, and a developing recession.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    What do you mean by the Gardai busting a regular operation? Was this aircraft a regular visitor?

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    there was a huge bust there a good few years ago also. the border controls appear to be very lax.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    2006? It wasn't actually at Weston.

    "Irishmen held in jet drugs seizure – The Irish Times" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irishmen-held-in-jet-drugs-seizure-1.1008299



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,175 ✭✭✭Augme


    Good to see the foundations laid by Jim Mansfield Snr. are still firmly in place.

    Post edited by Augme on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    What aircraft was involved ? I see newspaper reports saying it was worth €8 million yet I see pictures of a single engine Cessna



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,844 ✭✭✭knucklehead6




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    It was a 1968 Cessna 210.



  • Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭Astral Nav


    Any idea of the reg? Didn't see anything on FR24.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭EchoIndia




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    Something interesting just flew in to Weston. It wasn't on flight radar, anyone know what it was. It looked old and sounded loud.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭EchoIndia




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    Yeah I think that was it. The tail on it made it look big. Not a regular visitor to Weston?



  • Posts: 0 Dash Odd Actor


    Twin radials, they are loud and heavy sounding.



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