All,
Beyond the lines: Beside the local Kemble issues - politics all around Europe -
the EAS (Experimental Aviation of Switzerland) is
not very happy the PFA silently took over the same weekend slot - harmonized
between
the European homebuilder community, including
the IEV (Austria), RSA (France) and OUV (Germany) for years.
Left a message early December to David Wise (schedule collector for the u.r.a.s
publications - thank you David, very useful for the
community!), we received the following message:
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Dear Kurt,
Dave Wise has passed on to me the e.mail you sent to him about you Fly-In in
Switzerland.
This was the only date that I could get
for our rally at this late point in the year due to other considerations of the
airfield we are using. It is obviously too late in
the year to find a new airfield for our 2006 rally. I do not know yet what we
are going to do next year (2007) as we have to make a
success of 2006 before that decision is taken. We have had 2 years of very poor
weather and heavy losses to make up so the PFA
committee were not sure how to proceed and I managed to persuade them that we do
need a rally and this is how it turned out. Lets
keep in touch for the future and I will try to avoid your event.
Regards Cliff Mort
PFA Rally Chairman.
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In the recent years - weather permitting - the Swiss EAS Fly-In was well visited
by aircraft from all around Europe (including a lot
of Europas!) and I tend to say every year a success for the visitors.
Covering certain high risks with such international events here at the nice
places
in Switzerland (e.g. meteo - like last year in
Raron!), the EAS has to face pressures for a success (read: no major losses over
the years - not even speaking all the frustration
welcoming just some hand full of aircraft - well, most from the U.K. and Eire),
too.
Understand the local issues in Kemble, but I'm still very disappointed about
sharing
the same weekend, as it's raising the risk for
both country organizations.
Seasonal wishes,
-Kurt.
EAS Webmaster
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Fergus Kyle
Subject: Re: Europa-List: FW: [u.r.a.s] Re: Kemble
Paul,
I read with interest your release on Kemble. Unfortunately,
there is little concrete information on which to act. Perhaps if we got the
details of the 'movers and shakers' responsible, a salutory note from
abroad (say, 5 continents) might alert them to what they are playing with.
We have the same problem here, where contractors and 'people of
import' have their eyes on useful and historical lands - for their own
fortunes without regard to overall public values.
Cheers, Ferg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Sweeting" <europa@percyville.plus.com>
Subject: Europa-List: FW: [u.r.a.s] Re: Kemble
<europa@percyville.plus.com>
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| Forward of a current discussion on uk.rec.aviation.soaring
| Regarding the emergence of possible planning problems at Kemble.
| Seems the nimby's are getting noticed by the council planners and local
| press.
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| What is the effect on the several Europa owners & Gloster strut members
whom
| reside there? Is there a defence being mounted and how can I support this?
|
| Paul Sweeting
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Glider Pilot Network [mailto:www@gliderpilot.net]
| To: Percy Ville
| Subject: [u.r.a.s] Re: Kemble
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| Newsgroup: uk.rec.aviation.soaring
| Subject: Re: Kemble
| Date/Time: 20:58 08 December 2005
| Reading the local newspapers what has happened is that
| they have upset the locals over noise as it is probably
| far noisier now than when the MOD were in residence,
| especially in the later years of their tenure.
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| This has resulted in the 'previous use' that was used
| to continue flying ops after the MOD left to be questioned
| on the basis that the site was a maintenance and repair
| facility rather than a general flying and training
| one. Now, how you repair aircraft without flying them
| I don't know so this should provide an amount of local
| fun in the newspapers.
|
| Cheers
|
| Robin
| At 16:01 08 December 2005, Robert John wrote:
| >At 15:19 08 December 2005, Bernard Smyth wrote:
| >>Kemble airfield operators have been told they need
| >>to apply for planning
| >>permission to keep the place going. Locals have been
| >>moaning! It's only
| >>been an airfield for 70 years. Although it's not a
| >>gliding site, it makes you
| >>wonder if this retrospective heavyhandidness could
| >>affect gliding clubs.
| >>
| >Bureaucratic nonsense!
| >They only need apply for an existing use certificate
| >if someone complains that they are in contravention
| >of the legal planning use and the local authority can't
| >refuse or limit them (due to the time the use has existed)
| >so it's just a waste of everybody's time.
| >70 years even predates the Town & Country Planning
| >Act 1947 which brought in the concept of the planning
| >permission!
| >Robert John
| >Duo Sierra-India
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