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I may have posted this before, but I was standing enjoying a cup of tea and a jammy dodger, with PK, when local resident turns up, and enquired as to when the first RYR flights would start?
We both turned at looked at 'the hill', and said when they move that, we can talk. Resident then asks when the work would be completed???? Very quickly the reponse was that no VOR/ILS had been included in the budget, therefore unlikely that even when hill moved, the flights would commence
Bemused local resident retires to car stating he had read all about it in local rag
Truly astonishing
We both turned at looked at 'the hill', and said when they move that, we can talk. Resident then asks when the work would be completed???? Very quickly the reponse was that no VOR/ILS had been included in the budget, therefore unlikely that even when hill moved, the flights would commenceBemused local resident retires to car stating he had read all about it in local ragTruly astonishing
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It really wouldn't suprise me if the locals had been told that.
And they would be that chuffed with thinking that they would be able to go abroad (Any where south of the rest and be thankfull or past Fort William) without a multiple hour car drive. And what ever the council spent it would be a money well spent.
You can be assured though that when RYR doesn't pitch up it will be because they couldn't strike a deal over fuel prices.
And they would be that chuffed with thinking that they would be able to go abroad (Any where south of the rest and be thankfull or past Fort William) without a multiple hour car drive. And what ever the council spent it would be a money well spent.
You can be assured though that when RYR doesn't pitch up it will be because they couldn't strike a deal over fuel prices.
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There should soon be more money available from the council budget to clear that hill so I can get my G IV in.
Argyll and Bute looks to close 26 schools - The Oban Times Newspaper
Argyll and Bute looks to close 26 schools - The Oban Times Newspaper
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Well don't say I didn't tell you. It's a Cooncil pet project, a toy if you will, so it will get money flung at it at all costs 
Some folk are so daft, they'd believe anything in the papers. 737s at Oban! Bugger me.
Smithy
Some folk are so daft, they'd believe anything in the papers. 737s at Oban! Bugger me.
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I don't see the problem. I can get a light 737 airborne and down and stopped on Perths runway 21 ( on the simulator).
Ah! Forgot about the displaced threshold.
DO.
Ah! Forgot about the displaced threshold.
DO.
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Congratulations to the aero club
Well done to the aero club. That's three potential charters next month cancelled due to this fence saga. You may think you are making some grand point, and I'm sure in your own very very small minds you are. However tell that to the hoteliers, restaurant owners and local businesses who now won't have a group of 45 reasonably well off people spend a week, and plenty of cash, in your area. I'm sure they will be interested in your petty squabbling about who blames who. Ultimately whoever put up the fence is costing your area a lot of money. In close season too.
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three potential charters next month cancelled...a group of 45 reasonably well off people
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Just the Facts Ma'am
NorthSouth,
This is a long running Oban International Airport bashing thread which has managed fine up until now without you sticking facts in to the fray.
Please don't spoil anything by pointing out any more of this, otherwise we'll end up with folk from the airport telling the truth about stuff!
Then where will we be?
Let's all get back to watching for a hotel going bust so we can blame that on the club instead of making the bankers the bad guys in all this.
AP
This is a long running Oban International Airport bashing thread which has managed fine up until now without you sticking facts in to the fray.
Please don't spoil anything by pointing out any more of this, otherwise we'll end up with folk from the airport telling the truth about stuff!
Then where will we be?
Let's all get back to watching for a hotel going bust so we can blame that on the club instead of making the bankers the bad guys in all this.
AP
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Silvernapper....best thing the council can do is un-licence the airfield then we can all go back to the good old days......maybe then I could squeeze the Citation in and keep the local's happy once more ..
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How much twin engined traffic did they have before being licensed?
And what aircraft types used it?
O aye you could get 13-15 in and out using a J41 with 1650 engines.
J31 5-6 sound about right silvernapper?
And what aircraft types used it?
O aye you could get 13-15 in and out using a J41 with 1650 engines.
J31 5-6 sound about right silvernapper?
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Never mind. When they get the approach Radar, the second terminal and the 10,000' runway extension (splitting the hill in two offering one of Scotland's most "unique" approaches) there will be no such worries. I await the sound of 757s thundering in over the skies of Argyll full of excited American tourists with bated breath
P.S. Not bashing, merely jesting.
Smithy
P.S. Not bashing, merely jesting.
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Not everyone arriving by aircraft
It'll be like something out of Mrs. Brown.
All the servants will go by horse, with the luggage.
the approach Radar, the second terminal and the 10,000' runway extension
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Thats quite common with charter.
You get GV's turning up and pax will get a ramp transfer to waiting helicopter. Then a fleet of range rovers driven by blokes in tweed and britches will drive the luggage/nanny's etc to were ever they are going.
You get GV's turning up and pax will get a ramp transfer to waiting helicopter. Then a fleet of range rovers driven by blokes in tweed and britches will drive the luggage/nanny's etc to were ever they are going.