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Old 29th Jan 2016, 08:39
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Jonzarno
 
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What I am try, and failing, to get across is the mistaken belief that they're introducing PPR for the usual workload reasons. They're not. They're introducing PPR as one of several methods to discourage SEPs at the airport.
I can't say I've ever gained that impression. Whenever I've gone there (my logbook says 170 landings in a SEP since 2007) they've been very welcoming and the service has never been less than excellent.

On one occasion, when the weather went really bonkers, they even moved my aircraft off the apron where it was parked into a hangar without my having to ask and didn't charge a penny for doing so. Before I departed, still in pouring rain, they told me to do my external checks in the hangar, and then towed me out sitting in the plane so I wouldn't get wet.

All that said: I still think the new PPR system sucks!
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