Pipes - careful not to post anything that could attract a legal action.
You have me confused with someone else - I only went to Llanfair for dodgy Young Farmer organised barn dance brawls. I am a Soupy born and bred.
I can't get in the least bit excited by Ian Woosnams aircraft and where its based. Sleap is closer to his house anyhow with a much bigger runway. I doubt it being based at Welshpool would have created a single sniff of a local job.
Wales the Week produced a very thin programme in which TB answered all their questions. It was hardly the Cook report.
The DBRW + WDA + Montgomery Council + CT + EU Objective One funding that went into Welshpool airport went into the infrastructure and not into the operating costs of Pool Aviation. 21 jobs is the usual kind of claptrap that gets spouted by all such developments. Safeways was going to employ 130 staff when the planning went through. And they did. For a month or two. And now its half that. Remind me again how many people are employed at Welshpool airport this week?
Similarly any routine investigations by the CAA produced a clean bill of health. Lembit Opik played no role in any investigation to my knowledge and I have written to him today to seek confirmation.
Which businesses have tried to use Pool in the past and faced very high bills? CT, Servern Valley and Sidoli appear to had no problems for many years. What business aviation is at Sleap or Shobdon that might otherwise be at Welshpool? None.
Your post is exactly the kind of sniping that gets my back up and puts me in the curious position of defending TB.
You seem to be an ex-employee. So am I. Some ex-employees are happy, others are bitter. That happens in any business. Any ill feeling on your part should not cloud your judgement. Welshpool was a busy vibrant flying school when Pool Aviation was there. No student got swindled; no instructor went unpaid.
Lets hope it becomes a busy and vibrant airfield once again.
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Last edited by Wee Weasley Welshman; 1st May 2002 at 13:14.