OK everyone.....Generally speaking there is no enthusiasm for change.
I'll admit the original idea was half baked, but was meant to stimulate some thought to a problem that won't go away. Our flying practices, at least in GA have been entrenched now for decades and it'll take some serious thought on all sides to arrive at a compromise that will appease all. At the moment there appears to be a deepening gulf between us the flyers, and them, the complainers.
As many have said, the biggest noise is on t/o and climb out, and there's precious little we can do about that, at least on the operations front.
So, do we need to change.....?
I think so, but also I think we ought to open some sort of dialogue with the more reasonable of the complainers (if there are any). At the moment the whingers have the upper hand, and ever more airfields are under threat. If just one threatened airfield can survive by adopting something radical, such as a triangular circuit at 1500 to a final glide, then it'll be worth it..........
