Diversion charges ?

[maggioneato]

I don't expect to land free anywhere. It's my decision to go flying, so I don't expect free landings if it all goes wrong. If one can afford to fly, landing fees are part of it, so pay up and like it in my opinion.

[Evil J]

We have a free-landing policy here for genuine emergency weather divs, and in my experience it is bl**dy obvious if its genuine or not as the pilot(s) are usually so happy to be on the ground they couldnt give a flying !!!! about any landing fee; when they are not charged it comes as a pleasant surpirse.

I think the distinguishing ferature is whether the div was "planned" or not-how you quantify "planned" is not so easy. But like I said above its always been fairly obvious to me the genuine cases and am not aware of anyone abusing the system here- if people do starting abusing it then wo-betide GA in this country.

[JonWhitehouse]

Gloucester arent in the fee divert scheme so i wouldn't expect them to waive the landing fee

I diverted into Gloucester cos of bad wx at kemble on sat, they halved the landing fee for weather diversion.
JW