Is this the sort of thing you are looking for Dave?
(From another forum with authors permission)
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Stephen asked how the wider GA community can help to secure for want of a better term right now, "Lee For All".
1) FIRST AND FOREMOST - be aware that Well intentioned 'help' that is uninformed is very likely to be damaging rather than helpful - the situation is VERY complex. So, first help to ask for is please do not inadvetantly harm is being attempted with efforts from the sidelines. (I hope you know what I mean, because I have fallen into this trap myself when I thought I was being helpful early on).
Instead work with the Lee Flying Assocation (LFA), see
http://www.eghf.co.uk
2) Specifically, LFA need additional information on how much it costs other Counties Air Support Units to be based at the various arifields around the UK. We need to build up a more detailed view of what is costs other UK police forces to do bae their ASUs at Shoreham, Rochester, and the like.
We are swamped with core focus activities right now - Is there a volunteer to collate this information from the GA community and its network in the industry on LFA's behalf please - by collecting in PM's from people who have some insight of those costs - we do not want this data gathering to be done in a public thread on a forum..
3) In a similar vein - so, who wants to use Lee? We are 'told' that there is suffient GA capacity in the area such that accessibility to use Lee in not required. Which means that the latent demand for GA use of Lee is not visible to the (Non-Aviation) decision makers. We need to surface that, in spades.
Is there a volunteer, please, who will offer to collate, again PMs, from the GA community expressing their wish to use the facilites, and thus build up evidence of unsatisfied demand which will further strengthen LFA's business case?
LFA will be a public meeting at Crofton Community Centre in Stubbington, Hants on 1900 Sunday 28th October.
Just an observation: the day GA was told it was to be finally be fully closed out Lee... ...was also the day XH558 flew again.... the art of the possible can be demonstrated again... ...who's in? Help like the above would be very valuable.
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