N Reg aircraft under official pressure in UK??

[peterh337]

Good work from mm_flynn

It would have been totally barmy if N-regs needed specific DfT permission to take to the air in any part of the UK because there would be no way for visiting foreigners (most of whom are ...... wait for it guys .... this is an amazing revelation which was top secret until now ..... foreign registered ) to obtain such a permission - at the short notice potentially involved in international aviation.



However, I am b*****d as to why slots are required for IFR even if OCAS and outside the olympic "shoot you down" area. It is idiotic because (as anybody who has the slightest clue about UK aviation knows) there is no practical difference between IFR OCAS and VFR OCAS. All this rule does is cripple flying school instrument training income, make IAPs useless for people who need them (because the based schools will just book every one of the 1hr-ly slots - just like e.g. FTOs in Bournemouth have their instructors get out of bed at 6:30am and make phone calls in their pyjamas to book procedure slots) and encourages DIY letdowns into airports with perfectly good instrument facilities which will now be mandatorily useless for 90%+ of the time at any airport which is not running Bournemouth-type or Cranfield-type training levels.