Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) are planning a large scale overhead power line across Aberdeenshire. Their preferred route corridor crosses directly overhead Insch airfield and its established 3km safeguarding zone. (see map)
At this stage we need help from the aviation community to encourage SSE to avoid Insch airfield and the safeguarding zone in its entirety.
The details are are available at
https://www.ssepd.co.uk/Blackhillock...Reinforcement/ we ask you to complete and submit comments using the 'Contact us here' on the right hand side of the webpage. They have advised us that numbers are important to maximise our impact. Please help us in this endeavour before the deadline of the 8th January 2016.
The airfield was established in 1985 and has an active GA community involved with all ends of the general aviation spectrum. We have close links with the local community and actively encourage their involvement. The airfield is used as a satellite Registered Training Facility for Cabro Aviation. It is also used as a diversion airfield for general aviation based at the coastal airfields in Aberdeenshire who find themselves fogbound. The excellent facilities make it a regular stopover for touring aircraft visiting Scotland.
Over the decades Insch has developed and improved its infrastructure, the latest being a new hangar extension this year and further improvements are envisaged. The impact of the power line would seriously affect the safety and viability of the airfield.
