Exactly my point. I used to own a Warrior and flew virtually every week. I
just restarted after a three year layoff, although I flew with a friend
sometimes from Stapleford. My instructor at Luton said he could always tell
if someone had learned their R/T at a grass strip or a controlled airfield.
I learnt at Southend in the days when it had a control zone.
If you learnt at Norwich, you might have been to Earls Colne (EGSR). That's
where my plane was (and still is) based. Did a lot of flying around E.Anglia

John

"David Cartwright" wrote in message
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Better to learn at learn that [Luton] level, than to learn at a grass
strip and be
frightened of going near a control zone.

Yes, definitely. I learned to fly at Norwich, and actually did about 10
hours out of RAF Coltishall, and so I got to do a lot of R/T that those
flying from little rural places wouldn't do. My R/T examiner commented
that
he can always tell someone who's done their course at a fully-featured,
busy
airport versus someone who's learned at a dinky place with an oft-silent
air-ground station and has no actual experience of (say) calling a
military
guy for a MATZ crossing, or having a radar advisory service, or whatever.

D.