Ppheli your right the HCGB has never publicised the british championships not just for the lack of public liability insurance but because they do not have any insurance liability cover. They make all the competitors in the british championships sign an indemnity form and hope this is enough, at least kemble would have had all the insurance possible in place due to the airshows they put on each year.
It’s obviously a long time since you have flown into Kemble, the reason they would have continued with their normal daily activities is that they are a very busy active GA airfield. Flying schools, both fixed wing and rotary, operate from the airfield and the maintenance facilities are second to none. A lot of money has been invested in kemble and the championships would have been a great opportunity to show this to the world, and yes closing the “plank-wing ops for a few days” would have hurt them. What a prestigious international aviation event like a world championships needs is all the support facilities of a high class airfield.
Ppheli your wrong when you say that the “majority of members are very successful high-net-worth individuals, and this profile of people tend not to consider things as "expensive"’ the club is made up of a cross selection of people from many walks of life and many of whom joined the club to meet like mined people interested in helicopters and have fun. That’s why the helicopter weekend fly in at Weston is such great fun, perhaps kemble will have another helicopter show, like they had in previous years, in 2005.
Your comments are exactly why the club does not have an even larger membership as many potential members know that the minority of these high-net-worth individuals run the club for other high-net-worth individuals in the HCGB and so would not make them welcome and do not make them welcome.
No i am not CountryMember.