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By: 3rd September 2014 at 19:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That is expensive.
I'd rather go to Abbeville and have a decent lunch in the airfield restaurant.
Moggy
By: 3rd September 2014 at 22:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I would say the landing fees are simply there as a deterrent, otherwise they would be swamped with 152's etc.
By: 4th September 2014 at 08:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Having done some conversion-to-type at Goodwood recently, for £146 I'd quite like them to smooth out the bump just after the threshold of 24.
Moggy
By: 4th September 2014 at 10:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Re 4
It looks like your landing fee has already attracted inflation !
By: 4th September 2014 at 10:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Damnit! Now my whole post is 'discredited' ;)
Moggy
By: 4th September 2014 at 12:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-But Moggs, what could be buried under the bumps??? hmmm?
By: 4th September 2014 at 12:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Gawd 'elp us !
By: 4th September 2014 at 14:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Probably Moggy's landing gear...
By: 4th September 2014 at 21:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-As luck would have it, the landing gear survived. The aircraft has now moved to its new home at Old Buckenham, and indeed I did an OB > Wellesbourne > OB today, just as a familiarisation exercise.
Moggy
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By: John Green - 3rd September 2014 at 18:37
The current Mrs. Green and I were at breakfast in the booklined study of Irrawaddy Towers (Bruce, I hope that mention of that name, so redolent of the Burma Thread does not send you into a censorial seizure) when I said:
"Would you like to got to the Revival at Goodwood dear ?"
Mrs. G replied: "That would be marvellous". "I could wear my 1940s outfit which is truthfully all I have in my wardrobe and you could wear a leather helmet and white scarf".
I replied: "What about trousers?"
She said: "No one will notice".
I then rang the ticket office and sent a covering e-mail asking for the price for one aircraft to fly in plus two adults. I report as follows:
Landing fee: £126 .00 Two tickets for Friday, £46 each. Two tickets for either Sat. or Sun. £65 each.
These costs plus fuel for one hour each way brings up a grand total of almost £300 biggies.
Now I do know that there are many among you who'll be nudging each other and muttering what's he on about and similar sentiments. You are the plutocrats of our society and £300 quid is small beer. I, on the other hand, think that these fees are extortionate but, that they reflect the value of the occasion and the ability of the public to easily pay.
I won't be going. All that is left for me is to put two fold up bikes in the back of the car, drive to somewhere local, park the car and jump on the bikes and noses pressed against the fence, get a freebie.