Auster damaged by bullocks!

Blimey, sorry about all those typing errors, that’s what happens when in a hurry 🙂

Not a problem mate, I’m sure everyone else had as little difficulty follwing what you said a I did

Pizza Hut! They could have a Fly-thru!. It’s a fast food marketing exec’s wet dream.

All sounds like a load of bull (ocks) to me! 😀

Well, someone was bound to say it…! :p

Blimey, sorry about all those typing errors, that’s what happens when in a hurry 🙂

Are you really allowed to fly light aircraft in and out of any field you like? :confused:

Why on earth not? We should be grateful that we live in a country where the starting point if still that people are free do do things except where prohibited. This is greatly preferable to the concept operated by certain other countries which work on the basis that everything is prohibited except for what the state specifically permits.

You may land in, and depart from, any field with the landowners permission, providing that you can do so in accordance with the various provisions of Rule 5 (the low-flying rule). Rule 5 is being updates at the moment: you can find the revised proposals here if you’re interested. The existing Rule 5 is undoubtedly lurking somewhere on the CAA’s website.

If a great deal of flying takes place in and out of the same field, of course, it would be reasonable for people to regard this as a change of primary use of the land, from e.g. agricultural to airfield. So planning permissions would be needed. At preent planning permission can be avoided by the use of the 28 day rule, which basically says that if you do activity x in a given location fewer than 28 days a year, then that does not count as change of use for planning purposes.

Many a nice airfield e.g. Little Gransden, got started under the 28 day rule.

Yeah. Guess they’d turn their noses up at fast food like a Cessna 172…

Nice to see that bovines still enjoy the taste of real areoplanes covered in dope and fabric…
Sure this won’t be the last time we hear of this sort of thing happening…
OAW

must be a quiet news day Dave!

Yes, that makes more sense, strange how these things get twisted in the telling 🙂

Amazingly, this story even made it onto NZ teletext today. (Not sure why, is there no other international news right now? 🙂 )

It says they flew into the field to visit friends for lunch, so I don’t think they just flew into any old field. It was probably the friends’ farm.

This has happened in NZ in the past too.

So now n i g h t w a t c h m a n is offensive!!!

And I thought I had a dirty mind.
In the words of Austin Powers…”I didn’t see that one coming.”

The story reads as if its owners just decided to land in the field for lunch, is that normal? Are you really allowed to fly light aircraft in and out of any field you like? :

The story in the Daily Mail reads as though it is a field that they used on a frequent basis when going out for a meal… Hope it doesn’t catch on with Pizza Hut.

Flood

Back in the early days of American aviation, the “Barnstormers” flying Jennys, Standards and WACOs would hire local boys to spend the night with the planes kept in pastures to prevent such occurences.

It’s something about the dope on the fabric that attracks the cows/bulls.

In return for their nigh****chman duties and other chores, the kids would get a free flight. A lot of boys who went onto fly in the war got their first flights that way.

There is a “nice” picture in the paper copy of the Telegraph. There is about a metre of fabric missing/ripped off on either side of the tail behind the cabin