Dan O'Hagan wrote:Come on XR219, let's have those answers. We're (still) waiting.
I think you'll be waiting a long time. I'm pretty sure that XR219 has absolutely no interest in explaining or informing the enthusiast as to what VTTS are up to. My guess is that he's been asked to keep an eye on what the peasants are saying. As you correctly surmise, the vast majority of informed enthusiasts rumbled the trust a long time ago. As such, we're not spending anything in the shop and we're not likely to attend engine runs. Hence we are of no commercial value whatsoever to VTTS. Their only concern will be that we don't tip off the elderly and the ignorant and reveal to them that buying VTTS merchandise isn't funding XH558 flying for another season. Even worse, that we might convince those aged relatives with some former connection to the RAF that they shouldn't bequeath VTTS anything in their will.
Whether others will agree with this view, I think it's telling that there is zero engagement from VTTS with their own forum on the VTTS site, a group who on the whole have very similar concerns to those expressed here.
Unfortunately, XR29 has very little credibility with me. Any response we've had in the past has generally been so slippery, evasive, vague and tied up with concerns over commercial confidentiality and secrecy, as to make them almost worthless.