Re: It's getting curiouser and curiouser. Absolutely! Over the next couple of weeks I might add to this thread but I thought I would start here.
Re: Security and potheads on North Stradbroke Island. There are 3 towns, Point Lookout - expensive tourist centre, Amity Point - laid back sort of touristy but mostly not and Dunwich - where most of the crime occurs. YDUN is well out of town and so doesn't often attract the attention of the criminal element. There is a need for caretaker security, but very few incidents have occurred in the last decade. Beehives were a very specific exception to the rule, can't say more than that because as far as I know, no one has been charged.
Re: Call Nick Sigley hes the CFI. that uses the strip I believe. - Not anymore. Once upon a time Nick was given the sole right to operate a school at Dunwich. For an explanation see previous post: "Back then, this ad was created by someone who promised the non-aviation, non-business owner of the airfield that he would handle the promotion and sales..." The same new person offered Nick a CFI job at his new school at Dunwich. This was the first that Nick heard of his sole rights being revoked. Not surprisingly Nick declined, Nick curtailed his operations at Dunwich and the new school never opened.
Re: non-business owner. The random changing of the goal posts like with Nick Sigley is a very common practice at YDUN. I might supply a dozen or two examples later but the short answer is you cannot do business without a paper / email trail to ensure that agreements are not forgotten or inaccurately recalled at an inopportune moment. The trick is to get a paper / email trail out of the owner; many have tried with varying degrees of success and varying degrees of consequences.
Re: “Stradbroke Air Park Pty Ltd." - the proper title is Stradbroke Air Pty Ltd often abbreviated to Stradair. Of note is that according to the website "Straddie Aero Club operates in co-operation with the Registered Lessee and operator of Dunwich Airfield: Stradbroke Air Pty Ltd" an explanation of that co-operation would take a lot longer than I have right now. In short, other office bearers may come and go but both the club and the company have had the same person in charge for almost 2 decades.
