Having taught Mr Griffin to fly his machine a few observatios for you.
1. He is not a bad bloke and not unreasonable, but knows what he wants and doed not suffer fools gladly.
2. His hangar was out of view of his and neighbours house until neighbours cut 4 ft off their hedge. Mr G has even sunk the hangar down a bit, although I think this is to get round the law.
3. I spent a day with him last week, looking at, minimising noise, steep approaches and the best way of getting in to his site to cause the least disturbance. Before you ask - away from his house.
4. He shot himself in the foot by using Castle Air boys, they knew little about a 500 and they could only " fix it " after hours and at the weekend. I would not like a 500 starting up 50m from my house 10 to 15 times on a weekend. Very few have a problem with 1 or 2 flights a day.
5. The next door neighbours have already an order served on them in relation to taking photos and videos - apparantly.
6. If Shaun had taken a different tack there would have been less of a problem.
7. A lesson for us all - one has to work with ones neighbours, after all we have to live with them !