John Soper

Posted by john stones 1 on 29/07/2016 14:42:13: Not sure of your point really John ? You call flying like this and posting videos on youtube pulling together ? I call it selfish and irresponsible myself . Would I have emailed the BC, no I'd have worried about others suffering as a result, but then the actions of these fellas may bring that about anyway, so maybe I should have ? tricky stuff doing the right thing Tarnishing our image ? you sure you're addressing the right audience ? John Stones Edited By john stones 1 on 29/07/2016 14:55:53 I'm not condoning their actions, you've missed the point. I'm not going to add any further as it just adding fuel to the fire. Time to switch off and go flying!

Discussing and sharing views is fine but Havant Borough Council are likely to revise their bye-law to prohibit flying on ANY of it's land as that is easier for them to do than than single out one place and define boundaries. This would most likely prohibit flying kites too. Well done. Time to call this to a halt as enough disquiet amongst model flyers has been exhibited here publicly. Should we not be pulling together instead of point scoring and tarnishing our image. John Soper

What a shame that it has come to this, a public airing of model flyers highlighting the negative issues with a bunch of guys on the south coast doing their best to have some fun and encourage youngsters to take an interest in the hobby. But here we have a number of anonymous forum members hiding behind their usernames acting as judge, jury and executioner and probably having these guys flying site taken away from them by reporting it to the local council. I thought the idea was to encourage fellow flyers to improve their flying skills and not to condemn them to the point of closing them down. If you had an issue then contact them, after all they have both Facebook and Twitter therefore not anonymous like you are. John (Midlands Gliding)