Glasgow Flying Club
 

Hi All,
Please can anyone enlighten us what is the goings on at the Glasgow Flying Club,have they aircraft for hire? or is the club kaput!

From the Glasgow Airport Flying Club FaceBook page

Did he mean March 2016? BTW Piper Boy, did you head into Perth this afternoon from the east at 2000 feet or so? T'was me looking skyward in the Coupar Angus area.

It most certainly was, and did you notice I was crawling on the way there but zipping along on the way back, funny the wind difference in such a small elevation change, 5kts on the deck 30kts at 2000 feet.

An yes i think he meant 2016.

Glasgow Flying Club
 

Sounds a bit more positive,hopefully Allan can have us flying again soon from Glasgow.

OK,

So GFC at Glasgow Airport get involved with a 3rd party.

GFC fall out with a 3rd party.

Glasgow Airport then ends GFC's lease.

3rd party now appears to want to move in to GFC's old shoes.

Are these all linked? Am trying to join the dots so as to understand the whole picture.

Seems really risky for GA in that Glasgow Airport's owners may just decide that there are not enough shoppers (that's where it makes the money, and they spent A LOT to buy GLA recently) on a typical Cessna?

Well whoever ends up with it whether its old guy, new guy, both guys, GFC or even KFC for that matter, lets hope they get some GA action going back at Glasgow, would love to shoot a few approaches in there, be handy for dropping people off also and save all that bollocking about driving down there.

You can do that currently. Just call Signature, file a plan, and go..no issues. In fact, no plan even needed. Just tell ATC on first call you are going to area J.

Never knew that, what kind of money am I looking at for a pax pick up or drop off, I presume being a member of the new club may get some kind of discount on landing fees.

No, you must be a club aeroplane to get the concession, 26.00 quid. Signature will give you a quote. This will be a 50.00 NATS fee, and a handling charge from Signature. Speak with Brian at Signature, good guy. You go in through the Business Aviation Centre. All very civilised.....

Seems to all be overly complicated and messy!
 

Maybe they are overly complicated and messy people:rolleyes:

Just as well he didn't go to Prestwick - would have to dodge the spaceships there!

From the Herald:

Space travel from Scotland by end of decade as Prestwick secures Nasa tie-in (From HeraldScotland)

"The Ayrshire airport has struck a deal with counterparts in Texas, which will see it benefit from expertise from the Houston Spaceport, one of 10 commercial space flight operations in the US.

A delegation from Houston and the Nasa-connected Rice Space Institute met with representatives from the Scottish space industry and local politicians, with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the various parties.

At Tuesday's event, Richard Jenner, Prestwick's spaceport director, said he hoped flights could be operational within three years.

He added: “We couldn’t wish for a more experienced partner than Houston. They have a long history of facilitating government funded launches and it is exciting to be embarking on the move to commercial space launches alongside them.

“This partnership will hopefully expedite the establishment of a spaceport at Prestwick.

“For us, the immediate focus will be working with our launch partners to provide lower cost access to space for the booming UK satellite and associated services industry in the UK and across the world. However, longer term, this partnership could develop in to a point to point for passenger travel using hyper sonic flight capability that will help to cut down journey times by a matter of hours.”

Gosh - hold the front page!

Spaceships will cut the journey time BY a matter of hours!" Not TO a matter of hours!

Just as well he isn't in charge of communications with the aliens!

aka we're f***ed unless the US Government pays for it.
UK Government cancelled the UK Spaceport competition in May, the day after Prestwick trumpeted the launch of its great hope, Orbital Access Ltd
Ironically Orbital Access's blurb makes clear that its main proposal is for a DC10-based launcher that can deploy to wherever the customer wants to launch from.

Spacecraft launch is always going to happen as near to the equator as you can get it......physics dictates this.

As far as I can see Prestwick is rather a long way from the equator.

"Spacecraft launch is always going to happen as near to the equator as you can get it......physics dictates this."
If Glasgow Flying Club sell enough vouchers in Braehead Shopping Centre for trial flights in the sub-orbiter, this could still be a viable business, with the sub-orbiter landing back at Glasgow for £26. Competition for Virgin Galactic.

Factual posts are welcomed, attacking posts are not. Would a few posters like to check facts, and repost helpful information, while avoiding conflict please?

New website Home

Is that Allan's new outfit, or the new guys ?

But ACS has been bought out by Cloud Global, right? So is it continuing to trade as ACS? Cloud Global website says nothing about flight training and ACS Flight Training website is now defunct.

I was at Perth yesterday. ACS took my landing fees and I even got a free pen. The guy said he was trying to get rid of them. It is an ACS pen!
Surprisingly, Perth was dead as door nails. The only other aircraft flying was G-RMPS, but i was the only aircraft in the circuit. I don't know if Keith Boardman still has the RV12 as it took off as I was heading back from paying my fees.