Bermuda High Airport/Airstrip Review

Since I am planning go directly from the Perry Regional to Bermuda High for their regional, it’s time to do the Airport/Airstrip review for that site as well.  My basis for this review is the 2013 18m waypoint database.

My first, second, and third impression was “Wow – this is a clean site!  I could only find one airstrip (Lamar, shown below) that appears to be abandoned, and I couldn’t find anything else in the database that I thought was un-doable in an 18m ship (some are a little tight, but nothing that says “RUN AWAY!!”.   This is extraordinary – and literally remarkable.  I went back into one of the database files looking for information about the authors of the last update, and found the following annotation:

**                                                                             +
**                          18 Meter Nationals, 2013                           +
**                                                                             +
**                 Contributed by Tom Moore and Robin Fleming                  +
**                               Via Rick Sheppe                               +
**                                                                             +

 

These three guys deserve a round of applause from the soaring community for the bang-up job they did on the Bermuda High database – WELL DONE! ;-).

 

Lamar (38 mi southeast of Bermuda High):

 

Lamar Airstrip - Looks abandoned

Lamar Airstrip – Looks abandoned

So, my personal edition of the Bermuda High database for the upcoming 2014 regional contest will be identical to the ‘official’ version with the exception of a single airstrip – Lamar.

Frank (TA)