Mr Charlish seems to be in the habit of telling the press he's a commercial pilot when promoting the various campaign against (powered) aviation protest groups which he's either founded or in which he's an activist.
In another article: 'Steve, a 47-year-old commercial pilot' said many people might regard the Leicestershire village where he lives as
"the back of beyond," but
"I chose to live here because I wanted splendid isolation ..... no industry, no major roads, no trains and in the middle of the night there is a dead silence and then all of a sudden... (the noise of an aircraft.)" He claimed then (2005) it had been more than two years since he had a decent night's sleep.
'When the planes come over head it sounds like thunder and I'm 26 nautical miles from the airport,' he adds.
Poor chap. He'd found a place with no industry, no major roads and no trains and then aeroplanes go and spoil his rural idyll.
He also featured in this item on the BBC website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/4176456.stm
Some interesting extracts:
East Leicestershire residents made 475 complaints in the last three months.
The airport's Brain Conway said: "One person has complained 203 times, another complained 65 times which gives you an idea of the impact on people." The complaints came from 111 people in the east of the county affected by flight paths for the first time.
And, before the changes:
In the three months leading up to the flight path changes, when planes flew over more people, there were 854 complaints from all areas.
Three quarters of them came from one person - who submitted 615 comments about aircraft movements.
Given a choice between living under a flight path or living next to someone like Mr Churlish, I'm happy I live where I do - under a flight path. IMHO, his choice to live 'in the back of beyond' is a great blessing to those who might otherwise have him as a neighbour.
antilla
This government publicly deplored the old process of "Predict and Provide" in connection with the road network, yet it seems to have engaged in precisely that process when deciding that new runways were needed to cope with the predicted growth in aviation.
Perhaps it suited them to say that at the time, but realise "Predict and Provide" is a sensible process?
I hope so. (Re road, rail and and air transport.)
FL