Light Aircraft Association

Might is right, of course. Morally and logically the majority of LAA members were just as wrong as they were in 2016. 1. The AGM should not have been used in 2016 as a vehicle for the venting of a private grievance. Members failed to take the opportunity to put that right in 2018. 2. The Chairman sh...

Here are the reasons why I’m not answering insistent questions about my flights. 1. There is too much to say for a chat forum. They’re a chapter in the book when I finish it. 2. Anyone who can’t wait could contact me, although it does seem that the obsessive few don’t seek answers, but rather fuel f...

It is important that the Chairman is standing down because it means that the outcome of the 2018 AGM motions has no bearing on his future standing; it was worth pointing out because this had evidently not registered with some members. I do not know why he is stepping down. The consequences of the 20...

It is important to note that Brian Davies has stepped down as Chairman of the LAA.

Regarding some recent postings, please note: 1. I have not threatened the LAA with any kind of litigation, nor has anyone done so on my behalf. The Chairman is incorrect to assert this in his statement. I have already stated my willingness for all correspondence from my solicitor and myself to be pu...

Gentlemen The conspiracy theory that behind the two 2018 AGM motions stand mighty commercial forces threatening the LAA on my behalf is wholly misconceived. Since November 2016 a solicitor has written four letters to the LAA on my behalf, the last in December 2017. Letters since then to the Presiden...

Rutherford is an unreliable witness in the matter of our Africa expedition. He was paid over 50,000 euros to manage the logistics comprising two aircraft and eight crew from Cape Town to Goodwood. Most of his actions were deemed to be incompetent and unsafe by the rest of the crew. We parted company...

Dear Sam In answer to yours of early Saturday morning, the 2018 motions mean what the words say. I don't think this forum is the place to respond in detail to your untrue allegations or to go into the reasons why your professional role in the 2013 Africa flight did not go well and you subsequently d...

David, With regard to your first point about the authorship of the motion, I refer to the minutes of the meeting, 23 Sept 2016, which record that a motion was received from Barry Tempest. This was found to be libellous. The minutes further record that 'Brian Davies proposed the alternative wording'....

‘It’s an ambush’ writes one enraged participant on this string; ‘and I hate my association being used in this way’. Indeed: we shouldn’t be in the situation we are now in. So imagine how I felt in 2016 to discover just before the LAA AGM that it was being used for the culmination of months of nasty ...

I am sorry that the 2018 AGM is confronted by a motion about me. It comes at the suggestion of the Chairman. I felt that the process whereby massed proxy votes at the 2016 AGM stripped me of the Woodhams Award on the never explained grounds that I had ‘brought the LAA into disrepute’ was deeply flaw...