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We are plannig a trip to Margate and would be stoppping at the Shell Ultra city at Escort for fuel.
Is the runway still acitve ?
What is the condition ?

t-bird wrote:We are plannig a trip to Margate and would be stoppping at the Shell Ultra city at Escort for fuel.
Is the runway still acitve ?
What is the condition ?

KOm jy Gariep toe ?

Check with Demon. They did the Berg thing a couple weeks back in the area...

Nee Jabbanaught ek gaan nie Gariep toe nie.

Foto of one of my previous landings at Escort

As matter of interest. Does anyone have an aerial shot? We stopped there on Sat but I forgot to look for the airstrip... Pee and food was more of a priority with the rug rats in the car...

Rv4ker,

Let me know if this helps..

I know there is a trench and a rock towards the middle of the threshold on the northside of the picture...

Stopped there a coupla days ago. The grass seem a bit long but it looks decent enough to land on. There was a trench across it some time ago. I didn't notice it this time round.
Land short or long is my guess.

Was there the beginning of the week and the grass was cut. Trench is gone, so happy landings.

t-bird wrote:We are plannig a trip to Margate

Hi T-Bird
When are you guys going down? We are also at Margate from Easter weekend for a week. We are 3 Trikes from Kroon. If you are there for same period, will see you there.
Johan

Not sure about the dates. We are waiting for 2 good days of weather next week.

So, which side of the N3, where? What is the procedure? Do you get close enought to the pumps switch off and hand push or taxi through the traffic using hand signals for turning left or right? LOL

ZS-NEL wrote:So, which side of the N3, where? What is the procedure? Do you get close enought to the pumps switch off and hand push or taxi through the traffic using hand signals for turning left or right? LOL

Eastern side of highway between HW and pumps. We normaly stop next to runway and fillup cans because of too much traffic and also the premix story. I see that some trikes and giro's actually taxi to the pumps.

Would have loved to do a trip to Margate over this holiday period, but logisticly and accommodation wise I left it to late I think. planning planning planning.

some more pics