Brize usually know if Abingdon is active; but to be fair, it is marked as active on the half-mil chart (the symbol is military, active, not available for public use). As a rule, 612VGS (motorgliders) fly at weekends and usually circuit-bash.
You can hardly blame Hinton, though - it's on the half-mil chart as a parachuting DZ... Again, Brize will usually notify you if you report yourself in a position or route nearby.
Tim
Chinchilla - presumably you are connected to 612VGS...? If so - could you perhaps find some way to publicize the frequency? It's not on the half-mil chart frequency card, and as the field isn't available to civvies it's not in the flight guides only - in fact that's the first time I've found out the frequency and I've been flying around here for more than 2 years...
Tim
(Radley College CCF(RAF), so we've probably met!)