I'm starting to wonder what on earth's going on in the Telford area. A couple of days before Graham Cox's bizzare letter appeared, there was one from a resident in the Sherlowe area complaining that a light aircraft regularly flew low over his house and was obviously spying on him. The reason? Because every time he ran into his house to get his binoculars to read the registration the dastardly aircraft flew off!
A local pilot wrote in and quite rightly pointed out that if bincoluars were used to try (not to mention failing) to get the registration, low flying wasn't really an issue.
Then, in last Thursday's edition of the Telford Journal (a free rag that goes to all houses in the area) someone wrote in to complain. Specifically, he said that he had moved up from Heathrow to get away from aircraft noise, and it was actually worse in Telford. He complained that one local light aircraft regularly flies over the Ironbridge area - at least twice a day. Even with double glazing the noise in this guy's house was apparently intolerable and worse than Heathrow. He keeps a pair of binoculars handy to get the registration, but hasn't managed to do so yet.
The temptation to write in and say exactly what I think of these nutcases is very great indeed, but it won't achieve anything. However, they are managing to paint a consistently negative view of our activities. It really doesn't help when our own side join in with the abuse. How do we counter all of this rubbish in a constructive manner?