If anyone is thinking of travelling to the GA aviation exhibition at Goodwood, my advice is don’t. I went to-day. The A27 was chokka for several miles back from Chichester. I got there because I know the back route around Chichester. Once there, car parking was well organised with few delays but also thousands of cars parked in enormous fields. Thank Heaven it didn’t rain, it would have been a nightmare.
The aviation exhibtion itself was very poor – I’m glad I got a freebie. Two Pilatus, a Waco, perhaps five light a/c, two or three helicopters and that was it. Lots of stands, flogging bits which after paying £13 for two bottles of water and two soft drinks I couldn’t anyway afford !
If you are tempted, travel early. But, do not go if it looks like rain !
John Green
By: AutoStick - 29th June 2012 at 17:07
I passed through the planes bit on my way to the cars bit . I thought it was quite a good little exhibition . We had a good chat with Sea King crew & a conducted tour round -excellent .Then off to the cars & beefburgers . Got there OK ( 130miles ) got in OK . Got out OK , got home OK .
By: John Green - 28th June 2012 at 20:50
FabricFan
Maybe you’re right. Perhaps I read it the wrong way. It appeared to me that the ‘marketing’ portrayed this as a stand alone event. The venue itself is well away and separate from the main attraction. I went because it was a ‘freebie’ (that should have told me) advertised by the LAA. The carparks surrounding the venue were full of cars with people streaming towards the aviation exhibition. Perhaps they subsequently went on over to the main attraction which was about a mile or so away. I did not see any visitors heading in that direction.
John Green
By: FabricFan - 28th June 2012 at 18:38
Forgive me for asking but isn’t the ‘aviation exhibition’ just an add on to the overall Festival of Speed and, as such, not meant to be something one would travel to just to see .
Are you suggesting that maybe it has been misrepresented and was mean’t to be a stand alone exhibition in its own right?
My understanding was it was just an add on to try and drum up some interest in the airfields aviation activities amongst the four wheeled enthusiasts but I stand to be corrected …
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June 28, 2012 at 6:13 pm