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Old 16th Nov 2006, 06:57
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Landing fees is a particular sore subject with me. I don't mind paying to land, but in accordance with other things in life, I hate to be ripped off. Without wishing to appear unkind to the good folks at Barton, my personal impression of Barton is that they should pay to land there.

Any amount of money to plonk your plane down on a grass runway, built over a peat bog is tantamount to ripping off. KLM refused to land there for these reasons in the 1920's and for my money little has changed.

Barton is my local field, yet I learn at EGSY. Whenever I have gone to Barton for a price list, it is more exepnsive than other schools and if the runway gets waterlogged then wave bye-bye to aviation for a couple of days. Not my cup of tea at all.
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