I normally fly at Fairoaks but have over the past 9 months started flying occasionally with Carill Aviation at Lee. Indeed I even did my "hour once every 2 years" there, last month.
This suits me admirably becuase I spend a couple of weekends a month in Gosport and it allows me a 5 minute drive to the airfiel;d and to use a different "local area" and just to do what GA pilots do, bimble around sightseeing and enjoying being airborne.
Lee is very convenient to me for that and I want it to continue.
If there were more general aviation at to Lee, it might even be a good place for me to buy a share in something I could use to fly across to France (being 25 minutes closer than Fairoaks.)
Insofar as there being any lack of safety in operating GA, Gliding and "Blue Light" activities all at once, that is nonsense. The Surrey Police Helicopter is based aboutb 50 yards away from our aeroplanes at Fairoaks and we co-exist perfectly peacefully (indeed so do numbers of other heliciopters). I also used to mix with the Chiltern Police Helicopter at Luton .. again no bother at all.
There are planty of other places where GA and gliding also share facilities ... and I have done so at Lee in the past, perfectly safely.
LONG LIVE LEE
