I am generally a great believer in self help, but I will give you a clue. Check the bottom of the thread with the obvious name…

No more help!

All I can find is some obscure remark about Leicester with no date on it. Given that a lot of pilots here will have to pre-book aircraft maybe it would be more sensible to announce a date for this forum fly-in instead of being cryptic?

DB, you up for a three ship air to air next weekend?

Depends where but I’d be up for it, could also come along with anywhere between 2 and 4 other aircraft.

Interesting Mr Mog and DB,

Maybe a compromise can be reached between the club and the locals? I can see the point that the locals would be a bit p***ed off with the increase in movements and maybe the based aircraft could climb straight out and return straight in. Training circuits could be flown at Beccles which doesn’t suffer from Nimbyitis quite so much.

I’m not surprised you took exception to a letter like that DB, new kids on the block etc. IMHO the C150 is probably likely to attract more complaints than an S’man because of the different tone. The 150 is more ‘whiney’, and I’m not getting at 150’s either as I own one! I don’t think a flying club would write a letter like that either, at least I hope not. I suspect that it was probably written by a keen but misguided individual, probably a low houred PPL. You know the sort a typical sprog who thinks he’s a bit of an ace and knows it all.

Lets hope it isn’t too late to reach an agreement that everyone, GA and the locals, can live with. After all Suffolk isn’t over endowed with club airfields nowadays is it?

Indeed they could and probably would.

But as I seem to keep repeating, the ‘advertising’ here is BY willing ballast, not FOR willing ballast.

Moggy

No need to shout, I still stand by my previous post, the spirit of the rule is that cost share is by members of a flying club or people known to the pilot not anyone who wants to advertise themselves as passengers, and before you say they are only paying for the landing fee and lunch not cost sharing, Moggy, the lunch and landing fee would probably be said to be ‘valuable consideration’.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Only if your pilot happens to be an Ass

Another Auster fan?

Depends, might have been him cut it out! :diablo:

The rasp that you hear from Stearman and Harvard/Texan aircraft is the propellor tips reaching the speed of sound…

Aerodynaically speaking the Bee should not fly..

Incorrect, the rasp heard from a certain Stearman is caused by its pilot after another marathon at McDonalds, eh DB?