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Old 3rd Jan 2010, 23:04
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robin
 
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...Many strips do not charge landing fees and have Mogas, or the facility to get it. Not much help if you need night or IFR approaches, but works for most of us.
There is a difference, Rod, between a strip with limited facilities and mid-range airfields/aerodromes.

At our local airfield there has been a number of requests to have Mogas on tap as well as Avgas and Jet A1. The airfield operator made it clear that if was not cost-effective at the moment to do that.

Anyone brave enough to run an airfield in the current climate is going to be watching the pennies over the next year or so.

As I said earlier we should be keeping airfields alive by paying a REASONABLE price for the facilities and not push for something for nothing.

Otherwise we will all be operating from farm strips in future......
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