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TimGriff6 18th Sep 2009 23:29

Disley / Flyteam
 
Are there any Flyteam members out there who know exactly what is going on at the moment?

Peers Carter 29th Sep 2009 00:52

Disley?Fryteam
 
Seems they are on 'holiday' at Elstree although the offices have been 'cleaned' take it for what its worth

karl414ac 29th Sep 2009 20:10

Flyteam
 
Is nothing to worry about the offices are only closed for refurb and should be open again soon as for the aircraft LA and WU are being relocated for a while until offices re open

414AC

D SQDRN 97th IOTC 30th Sep 2009 06:15

do you know what Amir is doing these days?

UniFlyBoy 3rd Oct 2009 13:28

Spotted Flyteam aircraft at Cleveland Flying School, another Disley enterprise. Lots of aircraft at Cleveland but since Disley lost the Leeds Uni contract to a bunch of old women, not sure what they are all doing there. Most are gathering dust. Anyone know what is happening at the other Disley places? Blackpool for example.

AC-DC 5th Oct 2009 16:32

Flyteam/Disley at Elstree and Cranfield is closed, all staff were sent home.

wsmempson 5th Oct 2009 16:46

If you ring either the no. at Elstree or Cranfield, you get a recorded message to say that "the answerphone is full"...

horatio_b 5th Oct 2009 20:25

Disley Ops at Blackpool
 
At Blackpool the Helicentre is operating normally, but nothing appears to have happened about Disley's proposed fixed wing training and charter ops.

My understanding was that they would move into the old Emerald hangar once the 748s and ATPs had all gone.

Half this hangar has now been cleared, but the only aircraft to have moved in have been from another local flying school, FLYBPL.COM run by a certain Mr Murgatroyd.

JUST-local 6th Oct 2009 23:08

"Blackpool the Helicentre is operating normally"
 
Are you sure?

Looks very quite when I have been at Blackpool recently, used to be a very busy school. :sad:

AA. 13th Oct 2009 10:54

Flyteam/Disley - Aircraft seized...
 
I was at elstree yesterday, and G-GALA had a pretty strong chain around the engine blades, with a sign saying the airctaft was seized, and was now the property of Montclare Shipping Company!

Guess they havnt been paying their rental fees.

It sadly is no surprise to me. Since Amir sold off, I could tell that the business was being driven into the ground, (despit the best efforts of Ches and Nigel), as the business was never being promoted or marketted. Still the good old English weather over the summer no doubt played its part too.

Flyteam was Amir's baby and he had his heart in it, which is why is kept going for so long.

Who was it that said in an an ealier forum about Disley;s owner - the quickest way to make a million in this business is to invest five!

D SQDRN 97th IOTC 14th Oct 2009 06:25

this begs the question

why on earth buy it, if you run it into the ground within months
and make very little effort to genuinely run it as a business?

one thing now strikes me as obvious.
Flyteam - the name and whatever assets it has - might now be acquired from the creditors for not much money.

An opportunity awaits someone...

Amir
are you stepping back into the picture?

Bigglesgoggles 18th Oct 2009 08:22

Disley Aviation!
 
Hi

Does anyone know what the crack is with Cleveland Flying School and Disley Aviation? Apparently the staff haven't been paid for a month so have done a walk out and I don't blame them!

It seems that all was going well before Disley took over a few months ago and it has since gone totally down-hill from then on. Not sure about this Disley Aviaiton either - anyone else heard of them?? I'm gutted that such a good school with excellent staff has ended up this way. I feel so sorry for them. Just seems like a case of miking the organisation for all its got and then abandoning it.

Flyingmac 19th Oct 2009 10:25

Colin G. This is your stamping ground. Dost tha know owt?

horatio_b 20th Oct 2009 05:56

Flyteam/Disley - Aircraft seized...
I was at elstree yesterday, and G-GALA had a pretty strong chain around the engine blades, with a sign saying the airctaft was seized, and was now the property of Montclare Shipping Company!

G-GALA PA28 flew to Blackpool on 14/10 and is currently in the Helicentre hangar.

Mission30 20th Oct 2009 10:24

Penniless...but still smiling
 
Bigglesgoggles has got it right. Out of a sense of duty to Cleveland's customers its staff have worked for nothing since the beginning of September. Despite losing the Leeds Uni contract (and for the facts on that, rather than Wings Bar gossip and speculation, please read UniFlyBoy) CFS has still been a profitable little business. However, the staff have been powerless to prevent customers' money being siphoned-off into bank accounts unknown - it certainly hasn't been used to pay suppliers or staff salaries. A small correction: the staff haven't 'walked out' - they are unwilling to generate further income for Disley until their outstanding salaries have been paid, so they have withdrawn their professional services. The CFS team of Claire, Sarah, Richard, Mo 'n' Ed are honest, decent people who have continued to work under increasingly intolerable circumstances. Even now, they still have the guts to go to work and show their faces to the customers, which is more than their Disley 'superiors' have deigned to do. The staff at Cleveland Flying School deserve the respect and admiration of all of us fellow flyers for the stand they have taken.

Flyingmac 20th Oct 2009 11:36

There are many pilots and students who have nothing but respect for the STAFF of CFS. On behalf of my flying colleagues I wish you well.

As for the owners.............

bekaybe 21st Oct 2009 09:05

Disley Aviation & Students Money
 
I'm really concerned now. I have money in the pot with Helicentre Blackpool. I was just about to book an hour or two but have just been told by a friend that I might be out of luck as some of the instructors are no longer there. I've never really thought about the economics of running a flying school before, but there are certainly incentives for students to pay large amounts of money up-front. If there's no chance of using the money for flying, what's the chance of getting the money back I wonder? tending towards zero extremely rapidly I guess.

wsmempson 21st Oct 2009 14:43

If you paid with a credit card, getting the money back should be straightforward. If you paid by other means, I'm sorry to say that you may be out of luck.....

PENNINE BOY 21st Oct 2009 19:10

Heli Training
 
Try next door FlyBpl,
They have R22,R44, Enstrom for training and SFH with in house examiner.:D

XL319 22nd Oct 2009 14:39

Cleveland Flying School also has an answering phone stating that the School is closed until further notice and to try calling back in a few days.
The school had just been taken over recently, but i suspect the whole company has gone bust.


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