Ohhhh, yesssss, silly me! That just proves that I haven't taken my FTROL yet doesn't it, of course the call of Pan Pan would be made!!
Geewhizz - I take your point about not wishing to black the main runway at one of her maj's airfields, but our North airfield is quite small and on good weekends practically always has gliders on it! We also have a grass strip and my instructor has indeed suggested when practising glide circuits that it may be better sometimes to go for the grass strip in a real emergency.
Oh, and our Bling Airs just like to spread their favours around...wouldn't want other stations to feel they were missing out!!!
