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Old 17th Feb 2013, 17:11
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The risk at Glenforsa is the same as any other grass strip i.e. small and the number of things to pay attention to are few, since the responsibility for its safe use rests with the pilot not the operator. All the operator has to do is answer questions from pilots honestly and know the length and condition of the strip, if they can observe the weather that's a help too.
You know that, I know that, and of course, we all know that. ABC, unfortunately, do not know that. These small airfields were sold a bunch of S.O.P's, go to the beginning of this thread, all 68 pages or so, which will tell you why we are here.

Having got their teeth into it, well you know the Gobment authorities, bit difficult to extract yourselves. They view it as tantamount to operating Heathrow, only thing missing are thousands of passengers, and of course, thousands of large jets. Other than that, they attempt to run it the same.

Issue is, those that wish to pop into a small grass strip, on a whim, well, not quite there yet. Last year, a friend, on landing at Perth, from Glenforsa, was asked to call the council. David had reported him for taking off without calling him up on the walkie talkie. A flagrant disregard of A/G procedures. Not joking....

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