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Old 4th Jul 2010, 16:09
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bern444
 
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Our club near London uses a database to do the housekeeping, and I've just this morning been looking at a few statistics. We moved to the computer system in Dec 2008 and since then amongst the destinations have been...

Bembridge 166 times, Popham 43, Goodwood 30, Blackbush 22, Le Touquet 6, Jersey 2, Rufford, Stoke Golding and Bournemouth 1 each.

There are a good few more places that people have been, of course, but very few outside the UK, even though France is just 1hr 20 away. People used to go further, but that was before EasyJet and Ryanair made the difference in cost of, say, getting to the south of France so great that it isn't worth using a PA28 or whatever. Club members often talk about wanting to tour long distances, but they don't actually do it. Several years ago I was setting off for Ostende and needed to go back through the paper records to find when the aircraft last went abroad. It turned out to be me to Le Touquet a year earlier.

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