This really does make me violent.
I find the occasional hire of one of Caryll's Warriors a refreshing change from my usual haunt at Fairoaks and last did so three weeks ago.
There is absolutely no operational or safety reason at all why the aviation interests on the site canot peacefully co-exist, as they do in so many other places with fixed, rotary and gliders.
My suspicion is that the first step is to declare this a field for the Coastguard helicopter and the Police Islander alone and then when a decent length of time has passed, the police will decide to go rotary and share the pad with the coastguard (who are currently having a new hangar built), there will be a big expanse of field left doing nothing and of course building houses will inconvenience nobody at that stage .. will it ?
Then of course the Naval Gliding Club, who I imagine are currently laughing smugly as they get 10.00 a.m. - 5 pm. on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday as sole users, will suddenly get something to cough about.
The possibilities to turn this into a thriving GA airfield are there in spades but nobody seems able to convince anybody that it should be done.
As usual ££££ or the lack of having to spend them not only talks but shouts.
If there was a way I could help the fight I would be happy to pitch in but the existing Lee Users seem to have already covered every possible base.
