Funny old world. Sydney Olympics (pre WTC/9-11) was relatively easy to come to terms with.
Melbourne Commonwealth Games had a fairly large lock down, but wasn't overly inconvenient. A few hours of a large no fly zone during the opening, with Her Majesty doing the honours, but I don't know what checks were done on the four of us flying around at night over the MCG: no one asked me, I just got in and flew while the Mil Security helicopters had to hold 10nm away!!
The hallowed name of 'Security' overrides common sense and good planning these days, with no amount of money wasted on pet theories. I sympathise with all south England operators faced with this lot of rubbish
