Neil_Y
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Sort of boaty for pilots
http://m.plymouthherald.co.uk/Pilot...y-27637804-detail/story.html?444?444#comments
http://m.plymouthherald.co.uk/Pilot...y-27637804-detail/story.html?444?444#comments
The former airport site, which has been closed for almost four years, is in a built up area and has none of the facilities to safely manage the movement of aircraft.
"For that reason we will not give permission for the aircraft to take off but have no issue with it being taken away at any time by road. We have made that clear to the pilot and await a response."
Also it's not an airport, and the runway isn't a runway anymore.
Of he'd managed to put it down on a section of A road, you wouldn't allow him to take off on that same section of road.
He's landed on a bit of Tarmac that used to be a runway but no longer is. He landed in an emergency, without permission and on somewhere not (currently) designated for landing aircraft. There is now no emergency and just because there happens to be some Tarmac long enough doesn't mean he can just take off
Also it's not an airport, and the runway isn't a runway anymore.
Of he'd managed to put it down on a section of A road, you wouldn't allow him to take off on that same section of road.
He's landed on a bit of Tarmac that used to be a runway but no longer is. He landed in an emergency, without permission and on somewhere not (currently) designated for landing aircraft. There is now no emergency and just because there happens to be some Tarmac long enough doesn't mean he can just take off
Also it's not an airport, and the runway isn't a runway anymore.
Of he'd managed to put it down on a section of A road, you wouldn't allow him to take off on that same section of road.
He's landed on a bit of Tarmac that used to be a runway but no longer is. He landed in an emergency, without permission and on somewhere not (currently) designated for landing aircraft. There is now no emergency and just because there happens to be some Tarmac long enough doesn't mean he can just take off
Depends what was around the field.
Fair enough. What if the field was the same size and had the the same stuff around it as this airfield. Tbh I'm not that bothered either way, just curious.![]()
Sutton Harbour (who bought Plymouth airport as a going concern, and then swiftly ran it into the ground so that they could exercise the 'armageddon-clause' in their purchase contract from the council and close it for a property redevelopment scheme) are claiming a £200,000 rates rebate from Plymouth council, on the grounds that the airport no longer operates as an airport. They are concerned that an arrival and departure from the field (even as a result of an emergency diversion) is going to cost them money. The assertion that they are unwilling to let the pilot fly out of the field for "safety reasons" is a bald faced lie, by a bunch of rapacious chancers. I'm not sure that I'd keep a boat at one of their establishments, as you'd never be quite certain that you'd be allowed to leave - one day they might decide that it too was unsafe...