Airpolice wrote:
"As for the a/g going up to £50 a week, that will hit places like Strathaven ...."
Actually, Strathaven is on Safety.com - we have no ground station and no-one authorised to operate an air/ground service.
However, other aircraft on the airfield and in the vicinity may make appropriate transmissions. This might confuse you into thinking we have an air/ground.
I can tell you now, we will not be operating air/ground or paying for an operational frequency.
I suggest we take a leaf out of Scottish TV's book when licence fees were being put up for bids about 10 or 15 years ago.
So people, like Granada, paid tens of millions.
STV felt they were the only bidders for the Scottish licnce, so bid £1 - yes, 100p.
So if we all bid the lowest amount, or just abandon air/ground etc, then the market price will be very very very low.
Then re-apply for an air-ground frequency and then offer the going rate.
Let's show them just what the commercial demand is!