I had a conversation with someone a while ago who pointed out something very true, that all of the UK shows recently have set out with the single aim of making money, not being a flight sim community get together. If we did more of the latter, in a reasonable small venue (not the NEC, for example!) and people came expecting twenty or thirty stands, most of which are VAs or Flying Clubs rather than hundreds of stands or displays, you’d probably at least break even, but everyone is aiming to make a major profit from these things, which in this small community, in the current climate, isn’t going to happen.

That would work, except that there aren’t that many people in the UK who would want to go to multiple shows a year, but that’s what people still keep trying to do.

If all the people who want to put on an FS show in the UK got together and said “right, let’s do one annual show, in a central location that’s easy to get to” then it would work… Lots of fragmented shows scattered around? You’re just splitting up the number of displays possible and the number of people able and willing to attend.

So yes, we have already started doing that, but we are dependent upon submissions from organizers. Not everybody thinks of telling us about their events

Thanks
Fabio