So people who don't live near this field can object to it being used by people who do live near it, so that they don't get disturbed when they go there for a walk, once in their lifetime...
Personally I think microlights are great to watch, and seeing them adds to a day out. There's plenty of Scottish hillwalks where you still hear road traffic (eg Aonach Eagach) but it doesn't detract from the day, and neither does the sound of a microlight.

As someone who lives in the vicinity of the Bernwood Airstrip I am amazed at the NIMBY attitude of some of the locals. I was stunned to learn that there were 7 micolights kept and flown at the site. It is extremely infrequent for me to hear the so called 'old Volkswagen' noise. Actually they have never sounded like that! Wake up and actually listen to the country rather than over react yet again!

Due to changes in EU and UK legislation this site would require an E.I.A. It is not acceptable for the aviation fraternity to seek to gain planning through devious means circumventing the legal planning processes. It is always easier to gain retrospective permission or permisison through delegated decisions. It is a fact that several small farm airfields have grown thorugh constant multi-part planning processes after illegally carrying out an activity such as running a cafe or creating runways and putting up buildings without applying for permission. This pattern of behaviour sems to be becoming the rule for small airfields. Furthermore small airfields seem to grow over time, what is now 7 microlights could easily become 100 microlights, skydiving and helicopters in 10 years (as has happened eleswhere). It needs to be borne in mind that after planning is granted only the local council would be able to discontinue the permisison as the relevent Government Dept. who instructs the Secretary of State has never done so to end an airfield causing a nuisance. Microlights are noisy, they ruin local amenity and they are becoming more powerful and faster. why would anyone want to cause a nuisance to someone else and ruin their quiet enjoyment of England's lovely countryside? Flying microlights is selfish behaviour. The objectors are quite right in aiming to thwart planning permisison. All over the UK there are airfields with microlights that are causing a nuisance, and those running them can resort to very underhand and agressive behaviour. We know, because our group has had experience of it!

I cant believe that this objection is even happening! Microlights, helicopters and any other aircraft are great to watch and have never ever interfered with the enjoyment of a ramble in the country side. On the contrary I feel robbed if I dont see or hear any! Microlighting can never be described as a selfish sport, its like rambling in the sky. It s selfish for anyone to try to stop those who have put forth the time, effort and expense from participating in a wonderful activity which anyone unable to do must be jeolous of. Who wouldnt want to join the birds and enjoy the landscape. Microlights dont make as much noise as general traffic and do not infringe on peace in my opinion. Let more strips be available for anyone else wanting to enjoy microlighting, there are not enough of them. All microlighters, I am aware of, are responsible and highly trained personnel. If planning goes ahead for this strip there could never be 100 microlights, thats ridiculous. The farm isnt big enough. So come on you spoil sports let everyone enjoy their rambling, on the ground or in the sky!

In my opinion Ramblers are even more of a nuisance, their feet cause erosion, their presence causes more disturbance to all facets of wild life then anything else, their presence devalues the landscape as they do not blend in with it, many are accompanied with dogs who frighten domestic livestock and dog droppings cost farmers by increasing the costs of protection of livestock from parasites. Their constant staring into gardens as the pass through villages and hamlets, truly these are a selfish bunch of people; as you can see how their intolerance to anyone who enjoys their leisure time in anyway that they feel is inappropriate. Do we no longer live in a free country? They must realise that there is enough country out there for everyone not only ramblers. By its very nature an airstrip is a wildlife refuge, large tracts of uncultivated land with long grass and scrub – other than runways – with very little human presence, viz an oasis for insects and small mammals. Furthermore just how noisy is noisy, wind and rain can be noisy, from my observations – listening – microlights are very quiet and are becoming evermore so as technology progresses. As this strip is situated on a farm we all know that farm incomes need a boost, it is doubtful that packed lunch ramblers will bring any cash into that family tenanted farm, nether will they contribute anything to the upkeep ok the pathways that so many of them use.

Seems this tranquil Bernwood Jubilee Way crosses many roads and runs along side many roads such as the A41 and M40 and other B roads, through busy farm yards and worked agricultural land, all these aspects are of course tranquil. So when is the Open Spaces Society going to close these roads and stop noisy farming? From The Open Spaces Society website Protecting open spaces, common land, village greens and public paths in England & Wales so when is this anything to do with a small airstrip on private land? Seems like this lot are moving outside their remit and constitution!!

I live on a farm with over 100 acres of land. The microlights fly from the top of our hill, over our house and then turn. They actually train over our house. They are so low I can read their numbers. There is very little I can do. My family, including my grandchildren were in the garden one day and a microlight came over my house many times and at one point it looked as though they had stalled and the microlight was begining to fall. We ran towards the house when the engine began again. It was quite frightening. Once these people have the permission granted there appears to be very little you can do about them. It is ruining my life. I live on the Isle of Man and I have asked the owners of the airfield if they could get the pilots to go further out to sea and higher. Some do some don't - they begin first thing in the morning until dark. I would like to sit outside their house with a lawn mower when they have a day off and see how they like it.

I live locally to the Bernwood airstrip and would like to make the following comments. I have no links to the farm other than being a local who enjoys the local walks.

1. I have never found the microlights to be intrusive. There general flight paths are away from built up areas. What sound they do make is minimal and is soon gone as they fly away from that given area.

2. VERY much more noticable is the amout of light aircraft that fly over the area, some presumably on training flights. In particular small twin engine aircraft make the most noticable amount of noise.

3. The RAF regularly use the area for helicopter training flights, some at quite low level.

4. The area is on the flight path into Luton aiport. I am sure large jets are noisier than a little microlight.

5. The sadistic people that go shooting birds and other wild animals make alot of noise. This can be very upsetting to small children and dog walkers alike who can be startled by the sudden blasts.

6. Bird scarers when new crops are planted seem to start earlier in the day and go on later at night than they should.
Again this can be upsetting to dogs and small children.

The point I am trying to make is that the countryside is here for everybody to enjoy. Somebody will always be upset about something and you can't keep 100% of the population happy 100% of the time.

If the people that are moaning, as is their right, about the microlights, fly to go on holiday, then somebody could have a valid complaint about the amount noise their aircraft makes. I'm sure this does not even cross their minds.

My personal opinion..may the microlight fliers enjoy their hobby, the walkers their's and everyone enjoy the countryside. There has to be give and take on all sides.

February 2011.

I've just spent two weeks skiing in La Toussuire in the French Alps. I am the holder of a PPL.
Operating from a small strip nearby is a microlight aircraft flown by a professional pilot who provides sightseeing flights for those who wish to enjoy one. The engine is so quiet that the noise from the uphill ski lifts almost mask it completely. All that is necessary is to fit efficient silencers to the engines.

This lady seems to forget that the microlight pilots are legally going about their business. Findings published a couple of years ago found that ramblers and ramblers with dogs disturb birds and wildlife more than any aviation activity.

Ms Ashbrook why dont you complain about your next door neighbours lawn mower because it will be giving out more peace disturing noise than those microlites which you seem to have a phobia about. If you work it out, 7 aircraft operatiing all day would probably cause less noise pollution than you mowing your lawn or the road outside your house! I operate a small two seat aircraft (RANS S6). If you stood on the runway looking the wrong way I'd probably hit before you heard me during a landing. The microlites you are talking about will probably be using a Rotax 912 engine which is the same engine as my aircraft uses. I one of eleven who have been operating out of a farm strip for 10 years which has a footpath crossing it. There has never been a problem. Why carn't you just enjoy watching the very occassional take off or landind? Or maybe we should ban all you walkers who leave your rubbish strewn all over our countryside to the detrement to the local wildlife. Don't say this is untrue because the flyers at our farm strip pick up after you people every week. GET A LIFE!!

Good old NIMBYs they will eventually manage to kill the countryside completely with their selfish attitudes. Any wonder their children are leaving in hoards and not coming back.

What the previous comments over look is that lawnmowers are not used the whole weekend and do not fly in circles over my house.

Another not well known fact is that these plans are totally unregulated do not hold a CoFA licence and can be over twenty years old and never inspected. A car has to have a MOT

I am not a killjoy, have a life and also have two footpaths passing by my home. The noise from the ramblers may be the occasional Pringle...

These airstrips are not controlled at all and the flyers are just selfish.

We offered to accept the intrusion doing the week in return that the weekends are plane free. As expected the flyers want unlimited control of the airspace above my home.

I like watching planes, I like watching hang gliders, I like watching the old planes flying into Shoreham Airport.

I don't want to be buzzed at less than 500ft non stop every weekend when the weather is still.

This is not unreasonable.

But actually there is a solution, large ballons planted near the runway. One is allowed to have these up to 1000 ft. Then the flyers can look at them and enjoy how they dance around in the air...silently from the now useless runway !

What a load of liberal nonsense. Of course microlights should be banned and I hope they are very soon! We are regularly woken here at 5am by the selfish idiots hovering around the rooftops.
How would the pro microlight lobby like that???

You would think that one would be entitled to walk across the countryside to find some peace and quiet, away from the traffic and noise of mowers, kids screaming on their trampolines, loud music from next door, televisions, airplanes. Yeah, there is a lot of noise to contend with these days, and it is nice to have some place of refuge, a little spot under a tree by a river, far from roads or houses.....and just as you are enjoying this peaceful spot, birdsong and the babbling of the water, the tranquility is shattered by some buffoon in an airborne motorbike. No matter where you go these idiots will find you. They like to think of themselves 'flying like birds', but surely the roar of that engine behind you makes flying like a bird complete nonsense? Birds fly quietly, as people in gliders do, I am sure you can barely have a conversation either. Funny thing is, there are a few you can barely hear, considerate flyers I presume, after all the majority of resentment is due to the noise rather than their presence. Why can't they all have these quieter engines, must be more enjoyable for them too? I live near Finmere Airfield and I am just fed up with it, I hope quieter engines become compulsary, but that doesn't alleviate the invasion of privacy they present. Think I will get F*** OFF painted on the roof of my house too.

I don't want to spoil peoples fun but why do they fly over our house? There's plenty of fields to go over by the house. Most of the pilots are very considerate and go in front of the property - no problem. However one or two don't and they stall over the house, then restart their engine - I'm with the person above. It's a shame because a few are spoiling it for the rest of the pilots. Also some microlights are very quiet but some are really loud - surely there must be regulations, just because they are in the countryside they are free from rules and regulations.

Live and let live. I can assure you the microlights don't stall their engines and restart, they merely drop the revs to idle in order to descend. They have a permit to fly which involves a thorough inspection and test flight by a CAA approved inspector, and have to be flown be pilots with a private pilots license, as a pilot and a rambler I know there are responsible and irresponsible members in each and every sport, that is just human nature. Why do humans feel they have to compete with each other all the time? If everybody turned into a rambler there'd be no footpaths left for you.

L Barton, Microlights fly under a CAA regulation known as Permit to Fly, it is done every year by CAA licensed inspector from new. The historic Vulcan that is privately owned and flies in the UK is operated under the same legislation. The average age of the UK private GA aircraft eg Cessna etc is around the 40 year mark. Microlights generally tend to be a lot younger. You note that these flyers are not controlled, that is clearly wrong as they have to obey a multitude of legal requirements, even in class G airspace. Your suggestion to erect devices that interfere with aircraft utilising a runway is, I understand, a criminal offence and suggestion to incite others to do so is also a criminal offence also.

Recent reports such as the those covering Irwell and Stour Bird Disturbance and even as far ago as the 2002 British Trust for Ornithology, Bird Study, show without question that the biggest cause of disturbance to birds are Walkers (Ramblers) Dogs and and Dog Walkers. Ms Ashbrook you and your ilk should be banned from walking in the countryside ASAP as you are the most disruptive group of all!!!

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I live on the edge of a town in Leicestershire, and we get micro lights regularly buzzing over our homes and gardens. This is very disconcerting and invasive, not only does it add to noise pollution, but it means we cannot enjoy our outside space in privacy. There is plenty of open countryside to fly over, why must pilots buzz our homes?

Lol at all the people being defensive over their microlights because they know what a nuisance they are being. Utterly selfish anyone who flys small aircraft over houses and beauty spots.