When one sits down and considers the title of this paper and its implications, I have no doubt that for most people and certainly for me, the word responsibility must conjure up a host of meanings largely depending on what sort of person one is, and what one's experience of life has been.

There is not any point in my talking about the ‘permission’ I would have thought, except to say for anyone in this audience who is unaware, that each operating Ag company negotiates with the CAA, in my view in a somewhat tedious way, for the issuance of this document; in it is set down the way the operator intends to run his show, and in effect it constitutes the rule book. Anyone here who is interested can obtain from the Cheltenham Stationery Office a copy of the guide to the Permission. Hitherto the permission has been free, but for this season it will cost £500 plus £300 for each aircraft on the register, no less, in line with the CAA's campaign to cover its costs.