Eyeinthesky:
Plantzzman objects to the term NIMBY as I discovered in another thread. He seems to me to display a lack of awareness when it comes to the commercial side of life.
For his benefit - Some airports thrive or indeed survive on light aircraft traffic/small flying schools, some airports thrive on a mix of commercial airline traffic and offering available runway capacity to airlines for circuit bashing. Some airports thrive on the commercial airline traffic alone and become so busy that they cannot allocate any runway time for training.....
EMA like Shannon, Manston, Prestwick etc are in the position whereby they are ideally suited to and probably need to avail their facilities to base training and so that is what they do!
It's not hard to see why they do it and people like you who say "It's ok to do it but Not In My Back Yard are (can you guess???)
I'm thinking here you probably get the message!
