PFLs and private strips
I've recently been involved in setting up a private strip for a microlight school. We've noticed that the presence of the strip seems to be a magnet for GA aircraft doing PFLs. A squint at G-INFO (yes, they come close enough for us to get the regies) shows them to be coming from schools at a variety of aerodromes in the area.
Two comments and a question:
1) from our observation of their approaches, they'd never make it into our field (it's a microlight strip, remember) without ending up in the ditch at the far end
2) they always seem to power away again over our main complainer's house which is hidden in some trees beyond our runway threshold (gee thanks)
Q: Why?
Madam B