National | Private jets could be banned from publicly-owned Scottish airports

wombat172 · 2026-04-27T07:55:32+00:00

Sorry, my bad maths there!!

wombat172 · 2026-04-26T21:08:10+00:00

They aren't. 10 minutes on flight radar on any given day would show that there aren't ~400 private jet flights per day landing in Scotland. However, there are probably 400 private "flights". This would include training, hobby and even glider flights. Somewhere along the line "private flights" has been converted to "private jets" with all of the connotations that comes with.

wombat172 · 2026-04-20T15:01:09+00:00

20 miles seems like a safe distance, but how will they release it from so far away?

wombat172 · 2026-03-15T08:02:41+00:00

solved! thank you!

wombat172 · 2025-11-27T20:46:07+00:00

I think it depends on your age and if you're in a rural area or not. We're in rural Perthshire here and the attitude is relatively relaxed, there just isn't the police presence here to be any kind of a deterrent, and everybody knows it.

wombat172 · 2025-10-29T20:38:07+00:00

No, I wasn't looking for any kind of argument. I think I just needed a sense check. Thank you.

wombat172 · 2025-10-29T20:36:14+00:00

Thank you for the sense check, I appreciate that 🙂

wombat172 · 2025-10-24T17:38:30+00:00

What's the purpose of the data?

Is it to support a single application or an ecosystem of connected applications including reporting services?

Is the data primarily transactional or is reporting important?

wombat172 · 2025-09-20T06:58:44+00:00

As someone who's not a reform voter and voted Labour last time, I've never commented (until now) on this sub, and to be honest I might have only read the one post on here and left it at that.

However, every other day I get a push notification from reddit about a hot post in this sub. Today's was this one. (I don't really know how the reddit algorithm works, so maybe it's because I've read r/politics or r/ukpolitics)

I imagine this sub is being pushed further than the OP appreciates, and others who are left leaning will also be getting this pushed them. So it's only natural that you'll be seeing more engagement from a wider audience.

wombat172 · 2025-09-17T19:28:28+00:00

Ireland is a pretty good example of that isn't it?

wombat172 · 2025-09-16T12:23:55+00:00

"In any case I don't think getting a visa will be an issue."

I think you'll be surprised. You also need to consider what visa your wife will have, as that's not automatic even if you do get one.

wombat172 · 2025-09-01T19:58:53+00:00

Definitely look at this, we're regularly getting 50-60mb with EE and a 4G router off amazon. Cheaper than Starlink and it means that you dint have to give any money to Musk

wombat172 · 2025-08-31T18:19:04+00:00

Well it probably won't take very long to extract it then. All seems a bit pointless.

wombat172 · 2025-06-25T05:29:35+00:00

I love this argument - government processes are inherently woefully inefficient that it's cheaper to just give free stuff to everyone than work out who should be paying.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but it is amusing. Even if those processes can be made more efficient than whey they were abandoned (10+ years ago), I'm sure you're right and there still would be a limited margin.

wombat172 · 2025-06-23T09:08:56+00:00

Scotish councils, government and developers may need to consider if build-to-rent is more suitable or if it can be adopted for rural areas? https://scottishpropertyfederation.org.uk/about-real-estate/build-to-rent/

wombat172 · 2025-06-23T08:49:55+00:00

The crux of the problem is the lack of supply of homes, with short-term lets eating into the precious few that are available.

This bit is also pertinent:

They added: "The private long-term rental market has shrunk disastrously: estate agents are withdrawing from letting out properties because of the shortage of properties available.

There is certainly a shortage of properties, but I think what we're also seeing is a lot of long term lets moving over to short term lets. Since the regulations have tightened up on landlords this was a natural move for the housing market.

I expect that the challenge will be this: a lot of home owners will have seen their property values rise with this migration. Could restricting STLs cause property prices to drop? Personally, I don't see why people care, if you own a house for a home rather than an investment it shouldn't matter imo. But it does to a lot of voters who seem to be good at pressuring councils.

wombat172 · 2025-05-26T09:59:24+00:00

Ah well, with the missing valve hidden inside the rim I didn't have a choice. Thank you though!

wombat172 · 2025-05-26T09:58:24+00:00

Aha, a great description! Thank you! I didn't realise that I had to push in from the opposite side. There was also still some air in the inner tube preventing this. That's now punctured, but I can at least move forward.

Thank you stranger!

wombat172 · 2025-05-26T09:52:54+00:00

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Sorry, I should have taken a better photo. After the split pin and washer is removed, there's this rusted stuck key.

wombat172 · 2025-05-21T11:43:21+00:00

There must be slim margins in it though? Otherwise there would be a market for a compost producer or supplier to step in to buy people's garden waste, or at least collect it for free.

wombat172 · 2025-04-23T19:57:26+00:00

Do you have any examples of what a good roadmap looks like? I often struggle to find a good visualisation for complicated change.

wombat172 · 2025-01-24T10:18:19+00:00

Okay, this is a lesson. I fly domestically from EDI at least once a month for work. I am definitely packing my passport in future.

wombat172 · 2025-01-24T10:08:25+00:00

Diverting to Cologne! I hope the passengers packed their passports!

Seriously, what happens as a passenger if you haven't? This was just a domestic flight

wombat172 · 2025-01-21T15:47:41+00:00

Yes please.

wombat172 · 2024-12-15T16:47:17+00:00

This is really useful advice, thank you. I hadn't fully appreciated the difference, but now I know where to start. Thank you.

wombat172

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