Flying Club Wars!

[llanfairpg]

One of the things I noticed at a couple of clubs I worked at is they all seem to fall out with each other on the same airfield in some way.

The CFI of one club would taxy past putting his fingers up behind the students back and the other club would press the transmission button when he spoke on the radio. The best is when the one flying school had a big sign saying LEARN TO FLY HERE painted on the hangar. One dark night the other club painted a big arrow on the hangar directing the sign towrds their school

etc etc.

Have you noticed or been involved in any Flying Club Wars?

[FlyingForFun]

No.

But surely when these wars affect flight safety (deliberately transmitting at the same time as an aircraft from another school most definitely affects flight safety), action needs to be taken to bring these wars to a stop before there are "civilian casualties"?

If the management of your school will not act to stop any such behaviour from your side, and will not also talk to the other side to ensure the same thing, then I would think a CHIRP report would be the minimum action to be taken.

FFF
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[llanfairpg]

The two schools involved are no longer around and yes some of it was dangerous, what worried me that both schools aircraft were in the same hangar

[Dog's Bone]

llanfairpg

Please explain your remarks regarding Barton. I find your insinuations re the two clubs at Barton to be not only offensive, but inaccurate.

[llanfairpg]

Yea, I always used to over react when I was younger too!

[Katherine Alexandra]

WAC and BAFC at Wycombe are "rivals" in as much as there's a lot of banter, but it's all friendly in reality. Certainly never got as bad as llanfairpg's example and I hope it never does.

The only time I can see that it'd ever be non-friendly at Wycombe is if safety of anyone was compromised by another aircraft. Equally, not happened so far as far as I can remember.

[maxdrypower]

Lets hope they dont start kidnapping each other and setting fire to each others aircraft , thats how we lost our Ice Cream man :{:{

[HeliCraig]

Somebody set fire to a man made from Ice Cream, after having kidnapped him???? :hmm:


(Sorry - getting my coat already!)

[maxdrypower]

:}:}:}:}:} you should know being a pilot that you cannot set fire to Ice Cream , Ice Cream vapour on the other hand is a very different matter

[BackPacker]

So they first vapourised Ice Man and then set him on fire? That's the most involved practical joke I've heard in years.

Very odd - I'm starting to have visions of this gigantic Marshmellow Man at the end of Ghostbusters (I) now.

(Getting my coat too. Need to get out to do some Christmas shopping anyway.)

[maxdrypower]

No This is getting silly , the ice cream man was never vapourised and any suggestion that this could have happened is daft. The kidnapping ill have , that could happen . But Ice cream men are solids and Im not aware of any process whereby one could be vapourised short of a nuclear blast which is again silly as that would not aid the antagonistic outfit who wanted rid of him in the first place as they would have no one to sell Ice cream to , as they had all also been vapourised , with the obvious exceptions of the cockroaches who apparently can withstand nuclear blasts . I had heard that slow burning Ice cream men had solved the age old mystery of spontaneous human combustion , but I may be wrong:}:}:}it may have been the aforementioned Marshmallow man , as we all know they burn the top of your mouth when you set the on fire

[stickandrudderman]

So, this ice cream man goes into a cheese shop.....

[maxdrypower]

He left pretty sharply though Old Boy apparently the Camembert was a bit runnier than he would have liked:}

[Treeshaver]

Get the feeling that some people here have been at the Morocan woodbines.

[maxdrypower]

Possibly but its them not me Im talking sense, its that Stick and Bladder fella and Backpack bloke , they are silly