What a farce
Feather #3: I visited HARS a couple of Fridays ago and must say I was appalled. Arrived there and no-one was even interested in talking to me EXCEPT to sell me some trashy old garbage and membership. As was said before in other posts, it was obvious that this was an old-boys club and outsiders were not welcome unless they had heaps of money and were prepared to part with it in the name of HARS. I may only be an up and coming newbee to the industry but so were all the other old hands hanging around the place once. It is people like me (and the public) that will keep these aircraft flying into the future and the lack of interest showed to me personally (and not my wallet only) has certainly changed my mind about having anything to do with your organisation.
Winged Wonder - any chance of enlightening us on the progress of the enquiry/investigation although I would guess most of this stuff would be on hold over the silly season? and what sponsors have pulled out of the HARS project?