Grandad of the Magenta Line
Instruments or Eyeballs; which might make your flight less risky Deepak Mahajan 28 February 2026 I recently filed two near-miss or Air-Prox reports (as they are officially called) and having experienced many close calls in the circuit and in the vicinity of Damyns Hall Aerodrome, I wonder if we are getting closer to the stage of becoming “Grandads of the Magenta Line”. The gentle pejorative “Children of the Magenta Line” was coined in 1997 by Captain Warren Vanderburgh
