Sorted in alphabetical order by city name.

• The first name is the name of the city.
• The second name is the name of the associated airfield when the airfield has not the same name than the city or when several airfield can be used to reach the same city.
• Then comes the VAC code. Private Airfields have no VAC charts.

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Laon
The first time Laon caught my eye was about 12 years ago. I was flying from Lydd to Mulhouse-Habsheim (see Today's Pilot March 2008) in a hired, pre-GPS Piper Warrior when I spotted this walled town on top of a hill in Picardy, crowned by what looked like a magnificent cathedral. "I must make a not~ of that place," I told myself - then promptly forgot all about it and never even learnt the town's name. But Laon itself would keep reminding me - because, if you fly VFR from the south coast of England to anywhere in south eastern France, the walled enclave on top of a hill is almost unavoidable due to the presence of the Paris TMA and what I call “st Quentin's Corner”. Read the article