Sadly, I think it is a mindset thing on the part of the authorities.
The same mindset that thinks that placing restricted zones around prisons will prevent hijacked helicopters from being used for taking scrotes from exercise yards. It is doing something (restricting law-abiding helicopters), but it will never prevent the thing they don't want to happen.
The last thing they will worry about is a few small companies and pilots, even though what they propose will have no significant risk-reducing effect on the terror threat.
I agree with others that this is nothing to do with the CAA. The situation is being dealt with far above them in the hierarchy, by the anti-terror absolutist camp. If only it were that simple.
If many of us spent a few minutes thinking about how terrorists could evade this "plan" we would see a number of ways of an attack avoiding detection. Probably best not to talk about them in an open forum though.
Last edited by Helinut; 15th Mar 2011 at 20:32.