Mr M Scott, Bagby Airfield, Bagby, Thirsk, North - Hambleton District ...

172. Evidence from External Sources – flight data provided with the
applications data supplied with the “2008” application
173. More recently the planning applications have been submitted with
supporting planning statements and appended statements of aircraft movements.
In June 2008 a report was submitted setting out the number of flights based on
the records of fuel sales and some records of some of the pilots based at Bagby
Airfield. Detailed commentary on the June 2008 report is contained in the York
Aviation report at Appendix 1 to this proof.
174. Survey data from August 2008
175. A survey of aircraft movements was undertaken in August 2008. This
recorded 644 movements during the period 7 August 2008 to 7 September 2008.
24 th August 2008 was a club ‘fly-in’ day and was excluded from the count. The
survey recorded flights during 31 days, which gives a daily total of 20.7 flights per
day during that month and thus 145.4 flights per week. Various conclusions are
drawn from the survey and attempts have been made to extrapolate the data of
the August 2008 survey to give average numbers of flights over a range of
weekly, monthly and annual periods. The substantial differences in the number
of flights through different times of year creates complications when attempting to
define the number of flights that have occurred during other times of the year
based only on a one month summer survey. The conclusions of the data
analysis are challenged by residents of Bagby and are the subject of comment in
the appended York Aviation report.
176. Inevitably the level of use of the airfield will be the subject of evidence at the
Inquiry. The Local Planning Authority considers that it will only be at the end of
the inquiry that a final and settled view of the evidence can be reached
177. Planning statement with the 2010 application
178. The 2010 application planning statement at page 22 claims that “Although
the evidence is incomplete, it is possible to estimate that the average number for
weekly flights from known residents’ logs over the past 10 years has been 53
flights per week. This figure should, however, be increased to take account of
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