Freeze strands man sent to demo runway anti-icer
Wednesday 15th December 2010, 2:29PM GMT.
The anti-icing sprayer is now ready for action. (1067931)
GUERNSEY Airport was caught out by last month’s arctic weather after the person who was due to demonstrate a new anti-icing sprayer got stuck.
Deputy airport director Simon Macphail said the equipment had been ordered when they knew the cold snap was on the way.
The sprayer, which dispenses anti-icing agent onto the runway, arrived on 30 November – the day after snow closed the landing strip.
A representative from the manufacturer had been due to show staff how to use it and to commission it for use the following day. But due to bad weather both locally and in the UK, he ended up being delayed for two days.
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Could this money not have been used for bowel cancer screening? We get snow for what 2 days a year? Nobody could fly anywhere anyway, as the UK airports were closed.
What a waste of money.
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Oh I love a good old fashioned bit of Irony!!
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It is disgustingly clear and a shameful example of an ignored population living in a sham ‘democracy’ that until all working Guernsey people get out and vote and elect suitable down-to-eath representatives who will place old world values ahead of commercial wants, ‘business’ items such as a de-icer( needed for two or three days of the year)and ‘items’for the well-heeled (such as the aero-clubs demanded hanger/runway) will, every time, be pushed ahead of valuable priceless items such as bowel cancer screening badly needed by the people.
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Well done Mr G! That is a question we must ask EVERY SINGLE TIME the States spends any money from now on, no matter how stupid we sound.
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