UK airfields - pants
C'mon - let's list the UK airfields that need to get their heli act together. It never ceases to amaze me how many airfields make a pig's ear out of refuelling, handling and collecting money. Why do you have to pay for fuel in one place, and pay landing fees at another - especially when there's a long walk involved between the two ?
They must lose money - they seem to employ too many people to do the job that could be done by one. Where are the handheld swipe machines which can take your payment at the point of delivery ?
Then there are the places which badly mark their pumps and/or have pump hoses which are too short : you land, shut down - then a hi-viz clad smurf tells you you're too far from the pump. And this is despite the fact that you landed where the apron was marked.....
INEFFICIENT: Hawarden, Blackpool, Filton, Southend, Wycombe
EFFICIENT: Huddersfield, Sheffield, Leeds Heliport, Goodwood
Last edited by headsethair; 29th September 2004 at 19:26.