Originally Posted by
percy prentice
What's the problem. It is a members only club. If you fly in you pay landing fees & therefore you are welcome to use all the facilities. Why not pay to become a social member if you pop in there by car. The rules there are different but the airfield is different & is a fantastic place to relax & enjoy.
Absolutely - and I understand there have been a number of cases recently of random members of the general public turning up and generally treating the place like a public picnic park, which has led to a slightly more structured approach to checking membership.
Of course, Bentley the club Collie was originally hired to check that everyone was adhering to the membership policy, but the fatal mistake was allowing him to write his own job description - as I've remarked elsewhere, the result was 17 pages of closely typed A4 text (difficult if you've got paws) which repeated the words
"Throw the ball.....throw the ball...throw the ball..."
...and, 17 pages later....
"...just throw the
bleeeeeedin' ball, will you?"