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Old 11th March 2009 | 12:42
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gasax
 
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From: Niort
This is an issue almost inherent in farm strips.

My last strip was very popular with dog and other walkers. Yes they are a bloody nuisance but a conversation with them will usually much help. What will not help is 'buzzing' them.

Remember they have usually got no idea that you want to land - it simply does not register in their empty little heads that the neatly mown section of a field has not been prepared especially for them to walk their dog!

So if you want to cause difficulties for the strip owner/operator and yourself then just try and scare them off.

I'll admit to a few nasty comments to the elderly couple who took to parking their Range Rover in the middle of the strip but walkers - leave them be - 500 odd metres doesn take that long to walk (although it is a real pi**er when they walk to the end and then turn around and walk back!!
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