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I I cannot believe this... Our club has been up and running since 2011 and this has never been an issue.... We have respect for learners and also for those that are making maiden flights this has always been the way....we always abide by the age-old procedure of asking people ....Is it OK if I go up ??..... Ours is only a very small club, there is plenty of time and space for everyone to fly, rarely have I seen more than 3 planes in the air at one time and that's on a club day.... We all pay the same fees and we have already ascertained that we have equal rights to fly at the field at any time within the regulated hours. Could someone please explain why after all of these years we have these so-called proposed regulations cast upon us? . as has already been announced on this forum we have had a tough year.. we had the drought... the fires ..that heat then the covid lockdown . A lot of us never got much flying in this year... So why these unnecessary regulations now when we least need them.? Our members are precious we need to treat them as equals. We are intelligent, we have respect for our fellow man, we have all been learners, we understand, we will always stand back if someone is in the air no matter who it is if that is what they want .. these are the rules of our club. These rules cannot go ahead..it was stated that we don't want somebody just coming in and plonking their model down on the field while there is a learner on the strip.. ...this just doesn't happen , there are rules that cover this.. we have to ask ... is it ok if I go up..?.?.. This proposed regulation will make it very difficult for other club members as there is not even a set time... How on earth are the other members going to work around that...if I'm going to fly in the afternoon I may make arrangements to do something else in the morning or vice versa.. these things cannot be last minute ....just looking up a website to see what time we can go to our OWN Flying Field..is unsatisfactory ..... If it's windy in the morning and calm in the afternoon I will want to fly in the afternoon....and the other way around.....we all want to fly when the conditions are good and unfortunately for most of us it's not always convenient so we need to be able to go to the field at any time......we all have lives to live and things to do and we also like to do a little bit of flying when we want to...that is what WE PAID FOR .....Please , please ,please reconsider this proposal..... I notice..Greg the other trainer mentioned in a previous post does not appear to be asking for these proposed regulations to be adopted for his training sessions. I see in a previous post he has 5 students....very confusing.