Well we're grounded at a mostly microlight strip with 10 a/c and only two with transponders. Parking such a/c for 5 weeks out in the open is not a serious option. One sub 115 kg flex owner has ferried it to a chum's strip for the duration, but has to endure open storage.
Our location is only a tantalisingly 5 miles inside the outer ring - "so near but yet so far". We tried hard for an approval for a route out, but the CAA apparently had no freedom to apply common sense to what is a well known & long established entity. Naturally we have no recourse or financial compensation, so personally the Olympics are a very expensive imposition.
We had thought of a Mallory 'Big Wing' fly out, but in practice our usual 'jollys' are mostly done when individuals pop down to the field as time & wx permit. So even if we each bought the cheapest £1500 'S' transponder & DIY installed, the rigid flight plan system would likely scupper us.
Lucky Headcorn.
mike hallam.