According to the AOPA website, Plymouth airport is still a member of the Strasser scheme. Does anybody know the actual wording of the undertaking they will have signed up to and have presumably forgotten to rescind?
http://www.aopa.co.uk/index.php?option= ... Itemid=816
Presumably means that the safety minded folks in charge of the airport forgot to rescind their undertaking to act as a safe-haven for aircraft undertaking unplanned diversions, despite the fact that they seem to be of the view that their airfield is going to be unserviceable in the long-term.
If you have agreed to accept unplanned diversions and never revoked the undertaking, how can you then claim that someone making an unplanned emergency diversion to your airfield is a trespasser?
If Plymouth feels that its facilities are unsafe, they should clearly have written to AOPA in order to notify them that they wish to be removed from the Strasser scheme. Did they ever do this? If not, why are they not honouring their commitment to offer a haven for aircraft in distress.