I had no intention of pursuing it further myself as I said I only saw the end of the manouvere - I was busy in the wheelhouse of one of the boats in the bay so was at ASL... I looked up as just as he applied power for the climb - I seriously thought that we would be fishing him out of the bay.
Send Clowns pretty much sums up what happened and as the cliffs there are around 300 feet the legality of this is fairly clear due to his steep climb away - there was at least a dozen if not 2 dozen boats anchored or pottering in the bay - some with very influential 'passengers' on board not forgetting the largish numbers of people on the beach and those at the Alum Bay attraction on top of the cliffs - he was well within 500 feet of many of them. There were also some official aircraft about the area within 10 or 15 minutes so maybe they also spotted him?
I posted in the hope that the idiot will read the thread and maybe think twice before doing something so stupid again when he considers how many more people who have been turned against GA.
PW
Last edited by pilotwolf; 12th June 2005 at 17:02.