Pilot Scheme

brue replied on 06/09/2022 10:24

Posted on 06/09/2022 10:24

Does anyone know if a review for Warwick Race Course is correct about a Pilot Scheme for positioning vans. This referred to all vans being sited with doors facing away from each other meaning some vans had to be positioned looking into hedges etc. We had the same suggestion made to us at a site in Devon but it wasn't enforced however I wasn't happy with the idea at all. We have a British style van with the door on the passenger side.

DavidKlyne replied on 08/09/2022 14:28

Posted on 08/09/2022 14:28

I think JK is just confirming my earlier post where I said it would not be practical to drive in/reverse in depending on what side the habitation door is on as you would be facing "no mans land" to use JK's term. Perhaps we have to take the pilot at face value as being a pilot a review will be made and no doubt any difficulties that arise will be noticed and adjustments made or the scheme abandoned?

David

eurortraveller replied on 08/09/2022 14:34

Posted on 08/09/2022 13:08 by brue

Life would be much easier if the club adopted the C&CC approach where people are helped to find a pitch and settle on it safely.

Arriving on a site, maybe tired, confronted by extra pegs or changed procedures etc it's just a messy way to treat customers. IMHO

Thanks for your input JK, it's useful to hear.

Posted on 08/09/2022 14:34

Ten years ago a warden demonstrated his newly issued Dinky cars to me - wheeled them around his office counter, explained the new pegs to me and told me how to get car and caravan correctly on to a pitch. He was insistent about “left hand rear corner to the peg”  There was only one in those days.

He stayed in the warm dry office and I went out into the rain to do my best to implement his instructions. He didn’t come out to help. It seems that’s how it still is -  although pegs have proliferated in many colours since then and the instructions are ever changing.

But I gave up Club sites round about that time- too cramped, too confined and too many instructions - but  I wish you all well. 

brue replied on 08/09/2022 14:53

Posted on 08/09/2022 14:53

Well thank you Euror, wink in fact I feel much the same and am surprised to hear of yet another idea that doesn't really improve the customer experience. I read reviews and often think "why is this happening," I also agree with DK but fail to understand why CAMC felt the need to go ahead with this pilot scheme.

peedee replied on 08/09/2022 15:18

Posted on 08/09/2022 14:11 by Tinwheeler

The problem is insufficient space between pitches to allow that, PD, but I can quite understand why some folk think they can pitch as they like within their HS area. 

I think the club is attempting to wreck a system which, on the whole, works well.

Posted on 08/09/2022 15:18

Disagree TW. It is easy enough to place markers to allow the required spacing and in addition it identifies the area you can use.

peedee

JVB66 replied on 08/09/2022 15:20

Posted on 08/09/2022 14:28 by DavidKlyne

I think JK is just confirming my earlier post where I said it would not be practical to drive in/reverse in depending on what side the habitation door is on as you would be facing "no mans land" to use JK's term. Perhaps we have to take the pilot at face value as being a pilot a review will be made and no doubt any difficulties that arise will be noticed and adjustments made or the scheme abandoned?

David

Posted on 08/09/2022 15:20

How long will that take? The new booking system is an example of thatsurprised

Cornersteady replied on 08/09/2022 16:14

Posted on 08/09/2022 14:34 by eurortraveller

Ten years ago a warden demonstrated his newly issued Dinky cars to me - wheeled them around his office counter, explained the new pegs to me and told me how to get car and caravan correctly on to a pitch. He was insistent about “left hand rear corner to the peg”  There was only one in those days.

He stayed in the warm dry office and I went out into the rain to do my best to implement his instructions. He didn’t come out to help. It seems that’s how it still is -  although pegs have proliferated in many colours since then and the instructions are ever changing.

But I gave up Club sites round about that time- too cramped, too confined and too many instructions - but  I wish you all well. 

Posted on 08/09/2022 16:14

Yes there some confusion about which way to park but that has been cleared up now.

So on the sites you use you're always helped onto your pitch, that is good.

 

Tinwheeler replied on 08/09/2022 16:51

Posted on 08/09/2022 15:18 by peedee

Disagree TW. It is easy enough to place markers to allow the required spacing and in addition it identifies the area you can use.

peedee

Posted on 08/09/2022 16:51

Markers are not what you were suggesting in your previous post. You seem to have rather moved the boundary, so to speak, but isn’t pitching to a marker what we have now?

It’s a fact that there is not currently space between pitches to allow people to utilise their pitches in any way they choose as you detailed in your previous post. If there was, the pilot, pegs and this discussion wouldn’t exist.

cyberyacht replied on 09/09/2022 09:12

Posted on 09/09/2022 09:12

You put your left wheel in, you put put your left wheel out. In, out, in, out. Turn it all about.

My brain hurts.

peedee replied on 09/09/2022 19:13

Posted on 09/09/2022 19:13

Markers are not what you were suggesting in your previous post. You seem to have rather moved the boundary, so to speak, but isn’t pitching to a marker.

You're splitting hairs TW

Peedee

 

Tinwheeler replied on 09/09/2022 19:19

Posted on 09/09/2022 19:13 by peedee

Markers are not what you were suggesting in your previous post. You seem to have rather moved the boundary, so to speak, but isn’t pitching to a marker.

You're splitting hairs TW

Peedee

 

Posted on 09/09/2022 19:19

I beg to differ. You contradicted yourself, PD.

However, it doesn't matter a jot as your idea will not be considered by CAMC any more than someone else's. They will go their own sweet way regardless.

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