He recently turned-up involved with a new daytime service of 'Big L' radio, which transmitted from Holland on 1395AM aimed at the UK and on the former Radio Caroline Spain transmitter, using the studios of TotalStar radio in Cheltenham, together with former Radio One DJ Mike Read, who himself had previously been involved with ‘Big L’ back in 2008, before he was declared bankrupt.

Two peas sharing the same pod?

The Dutch transmitter is owned and operated by a professional company called ‘Broadcast Partners’, which maintains transmission sites for loads of national, regional and local radio stations in various European countries.

Broadcast Partners have recently switched off the Dutch transmitter due to….

*drum roll*

…. non-payment. :eek:

You can read all about it on Digital Spy

Our little friend is up to his tricks again.

OneGold is up and running online - Page 8 - Radio - Digital Spy Forums

Milking the broadcasting lark again I guess.:D

This is the Total Star Radio DJ to whom the flying fox refers:


Whether or not he has any connection with the events described in this thread, I have no idea.

Having met him/ferried an aircraft with tech records that later didn't match, it's the same person.

Yes, that's him. He should change his name to Walter Mitty, or perhaps Billy Liar.
It seems my last post with his contact details has been removed.

The Flying Club Kemble "suspends trading"

Plus ca change mais c'est le meme chose :ugh:

For reference:
THEFLYINGCLUBKEMBLE.COM WHOIS

Updated: 22 seconds ago
Registrant:
Edmund Hewertson
The Old Fire Station,
Kemble Airfield
Kemble, GLOS GL7 6BA
GB

Domain name: THEFLYINGCLUBKEMBLE.COM


Administrative Contact:
Hewertson, Edmund http://who.is/dimages/text/d65f227dcb28c2f.png@flypropstar.com
The Old Fire Station,
Kemble Airfield
Kemble, GLOS GL7 6BA
GB
+44.1285771025

FLYPROPSTAR.COM WHOIS


Registrant:
PropStar Asset Management Ltd
Hangar G2
Kemble Aerodrome
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
GL7 5SY

I came across this website which is very useful for checking background histories of company directors Who runs it?

Thats a pity about The Flying Club Kemble.


Another ' do not pay anything in advance' lesson.

The members of the club met and hopefully an new "not for profit" club retaining the name, location and equipment will restart operations in the next couple of weeks.

For sure, the emphasis will be on responding to what the members want, reducing the cost per hour, and NOT taking any money up front..

Obviously there needs to be at least a minimum number of members to give the club a stable outlook; the list is being put together now.

Fingers Crossed all will come together soon

Pawl Shanley / Couzens mugshot
 

BEagle: Yes, that's Pawl Shanley / Couzens.

The flying club Kemble- now in administration.
 

Just for information- Pilot Flight Training from Hinton is currently going through all the legals with Cotswold Airport to take on the lease of the old Flying Club Kemble building and to operate from there.

This would be in addition to their other operations and it should be stressed that Pilot Flight Training has nothing to do with either Propstar or The Flying Club Kemble, but WILL be offering free membership to former members of The Flying Club Kemble.

We currently have 4 x PA38s, 4 x C150/152s, 3 x Pa28s, Grob 109, Dimona and a couple of slingsbys. Which aircraft come across to the new operation will depend upon demand.

There is an instructors meeting this friday night to have a chat about the operations. Obviously we already have our own approvals, examiners etc so starting operations should be fairly quick.

Wish us luck. But just to stress- we are nothing to do with the old company in any way!

Safe landings guys.

Good to see the facilities will be re-energised. Good luck with your new venture. It will be interesting to see how prices compare to your Hinton operation.

I wondered if the new operation will also have access to the 2-3 aircraft that TFCK had leased - I think these were 2xC152 and 1xPA28?

Anything left / new news.....
 

Did a drive by on Kemble yesterday in search of something new.... but didn't spot anything....

anyone got any news?!

Ah the story is long but the outcome is short - nothing happened.

It was deemed not financially viable to run the club as a "not for profit organisation" but, another organisation that was training elsewhere thought to take it on. BUT, they had problems of their own and although planes arrived the club never got off the ground.

By this time much of the support drained away. So the core of the students and qualified members that hired have gone to the Cotswold Flying School Cotswold Flying School Home Page which operates from the tower building.

The premises of the old Kemble Club are still, I believe, vacant.

The moral of the story is however quite simple; don't put money up front, its a risky business. The first post asked: The answer to that is quite simple, they closed down one operation and returned to their core activity. Meanwhile, this thread has picked on one individual, akin to the persecution of witches and achieved nothing as some originally forecast. Nobody ran off with anyone's money, it paid off some of the companies debts, but obviously not all. Hopefully others will learn something from this because it will happen again.