Ex Cobra Warrior parking restrictions

[Thunder]

Maybe they should/could offer pre booked parking spaces at £20 with a Bacon roll and coffee thrown in with proceeds going to charity. Would save the queues every morning and support local charities?

[baz1]

i wonder who is going to accept the £5 donation fee??

[britaylor]

Its about time someone from the WAVE produce the correct facts and not mr Clayton whos head up on the WAVE f/b started all this for insurance open at 7 am when at Coningsby few years ago the car park had over night parking when the Lanc came across

[reaper493]

Its about time someone from the WAVE produce the correct facts and not mr Clayton whos head up on the WAVE f/b started all this for insurance open at 7 am when at Coningsby few years ago the car park had over night parking when the Lanc came across

Not sure who this Clayton chap is you refer to, the Owner, John has posted on the f/b page they will make further announcements in due course, as and when info becomes available.

Best we don't speculate any further, until we know.

Cheers

Mike

[Mike]

Just had a reply from my reporter friend who's contacted the base for a statement

Well well well !!!

And i quote....

"Its a voluntary £5 donation for exercise cobra the WAVE suggested this"

Statement from the base

Lee, it seems like you have an axe to grind with John at the WAVE, you have constantly called it "the burger van in the corner" and you know darn well that it is not a burger van - so why belittle the place?

Has your "reporter friend" spoken to the correct department at RAF Waddington?

Could you tell us all who this "reporter friend" actually is, or is that some sort of secret?

[blakey]

Ive already stated ive no axe to grind with John or the WAVE, infact after learning the tariff came from the base it was with them i had the issue and why i asked Lincolnshire Live to get involved, that carpark was given to spotters to enjoy the hobby for free (like all viewing areas up and down the country) not for us to be charged an admission fee when it suited.

[Mike]

I agree with you about the WAVE being a place for us all to park free of charge and I'm totally disgusted that every occupant of every car should have to pay £5 during this exercise. I really hope that under 16s and OAPs don't have to pay - I haven't seen that mentioned so far, though.
I'm not going to mention blue badge holders, that is an entirely different story.

So you have a long queue of cars waiting patiently to enter the WAVE (and stopping the traffic flow on the A15), they are all full of different age groups (kids, Mums, Dads, OAPs and the driver has a blue badge (that they have borrowed from their mate's Auntie ) - that's going to really help, isn't it?

The whole idea of charging is mad, absolutely firkin bonkers and how can they possibly expect to charge every human being in every car £5

The funniest thing I ever saw (talking about being charged per person here) was at the Aviation Viewing Park at Manchester airport a couple of years ago. I had just arrived when a chav car arrived and parked about 10 yards to the right of me, the driver got out, opened his tailgate and 3 guys got out. The AVP charges are per car, not per person!

[stealth117]

I kind of agree with Lee on this one. The WAVE is there for free on any "normal" day but not whilst this ex is going on. I don't remember anyone having to pay when the ACMI exercises used to take place and that used to involve alot more aircraft than what will turn up for this (I know, there's less variety and amount of aircraft nowadays). I feel like if this charge is implemented, then every time something good happens at waddington then we are going to have to pay to see it. In my opinion this is just milking us for the sake of it as I would be very surprised if ATC ask for the pilots to do extra approaches or anything like that for us "paying punters" in the WAVE. And yes, before anyone says the military are not there for our benefit, I get that, but if we are having to pay to be in the area to see the goings on then maybe they could give a little in return (if fuel allows for extra approaches etc)

Rant over , I realise this may not be how everyone sees it but I don't think Lee should be getting the amount of flak for airing his opinion.

P.s I will still end up paying the charge to park

[TARGET]

The way you are all going on will on will only finish up getting The Wave closed all together.

[baz1]

on top of that the wave is open for passing motorists, salesmen etc who fancy a break and a drink and a bite to eat before carrying on with there journey and probably not even interested in aircraft !?

[Mike]

on top of that the wave is open for passing motorists salesmen etc who fancy a break and a drink and a bite to eat before carrying on with there journey and probably not even interested in aircraft !?

What? Do you mean that there are actually people out there that sell motorists?

[baz1]

too much scotch whisky me thinks Mike lol

[ChrisCwmbran]

on top of that the wave is open for passing motorists salesmen etc who fancy a break and a drink and a bite to eat before carrying on with there journey and probably not even interested in aircraft !?

What? Do you mean that there are actually people out there that sell motorists?

I'm selling a 78 year old lady called Iris who drives a beige N-reg Austin Allegro Vanden Plas. Both have had only two owners since new.

Are you interested?

[baz1]

on top of that the wave is open for passing motorists salesmen etc who fancy a break and a drink and a bite to eat before carrying on with there journey and probably not even interested in aircraft !?

What? Do you mean that there are actually people out there that sell motorists?

I'm selling a 78 year old lady called Iris who drives a beige N-reg Austin Allegro Vanden Plas. Both have had only two owners since new.

Are you interested?

that's strange ive only just sold her sounds like your fed up of her already lol

[ChrisCwmbran]

What? Do you mean that there are actually people out there that sell motorists?

I'm selling a 78 year old lady called Iris who drives a beige N-reg Austin Allegro Vanden Plas. Both have had only two owners since new.

Are you interested?

that's strange ive only just sold her sounds like your fed up of her already lol

She makes a mean scone like you said, and the car runs like a well oiled sewing machine, but you didn't tell me how much she swears and curses if you wake her before 11am!

[reheat module]

I'm selling a 78 year old lady called Iris who drives a beige N-reg Austin Allegro Vanden Plas. Both have had only two owners since new.

Are you interested?

I'd take a chance with Iris, she'd be a lot less trouble than the Austin All-Agro...

[blakey]

I realise this may not be how everyone sees it but I don't think Lee should be getting the amount of flak for airing his opinion.

Thanks for your support, i think when the base sees how many people turn up for this, they will have to organise something akin to the Park and View for arrivals/departures if they hold another excercise at Waddo

Its unfortunate Waddo doesnt offer farmers fields either end like Coningsby does for parking

At least the spotters now know its not a compulsory charge but its there if peeps still want to 'donate' to the RAFBF

[baz1]

at the end of the day its just an exercise and takes place every year not just laid on especially for the benefit of spotters and just happens to be at Waddington, oh and with some Israeli jets taking part !

[pg1610]

at the end of the day its just an exercise and takes place every year not just laid on especially for the benefit of spotters and just happens to be at Waddington,

oh and with some Israeli jets taking part !

And there in lies the issue, if this exercise was just the usual British, German, Italian etc then nothing would be being done, its purely being driven by the the inclusion of the IDF
as Spotters thats what makes it all the more interesting

as for the rest of the stuff on here we will all have to work a bit harder to see, photograph, enjoy etc whatever turns up at the end of August beginning of September

Could all be for nought when 6 IDF crews turn up in a taxi without the aircraft ??

[slogen51]

They can be a bit sensitive to diplomatic incidents. I remember going to Decci a few years back for some IDF that weren't there due to something said.

Hope the Labour party don't make an anti-Semitic gaff!