Was flypast banned?

[cwatters]

Does anyone know if the flypast was allowed in the end?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/4386982.stm

Flypast grounded by safety fears

A commemorative flypast over what organisers claim is one of the biggest Armistice Day parades in the country has been grounded due to safety fears.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will not allow a WWII Spitfire to join Bedworth's parade, in Warwickshire, due to health and safety rules.

It says it cannot allow single engine planes to fly over a built-up area.

But organisers say the same planes have taken part before along the same route and have vowed to fight the ban.

Successful challenge

The CAA is also concerned the planes, which were due to make two flypasts, are privately owned.

Gil Leach, from the Armistice Day Parade Group, said: "Some of these young lads were only 18 and 20 years old, some of them had only done 10 hours up in a Spitfire and they were up there defending this country so why can't we all remember them?"

The flypasts were planned to mark the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Some war veterans and people living in the town have condemned the decision.

But the organisers hope their challenge will be successful and the Spitfires will fly in two weeks' time.

[bar shaker]

The crazy thing is that these aircraft are probably maintained by Marshalls, who are licenced engineers.

Because Spitfires are on a Permit to Fly, they are bound by the same rules as all other permit aircraft and may not overfly any built up area.

If the engineers that maintained the aircraft worked for the RAF and the aircraft was owned by the RAF, it would be no problem.

The fact that the owners are multi millionaires who think nothing of spending fortunes on their aircraft means nothing to the CAA who will be drawing breath very quickly and quoting safety regulations at those that question this.

Of course, if it were a Cessna or Piper, they would tell you that the engine will never, ever, ever, ever stop and you can fly over peoples' house till your heart's content.

[Heliport]

There's an interesting thread on this in the Aviation History and Nostalgia forum.


Link: Has the CAA gone bonkers? (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=196343)

[Flying Lawyer]

bar shaker "Because Spitfires are on a Permit to Fly, they are bound by the same rules as all other permit aircraft and may not overfly any built up area."
That's only the general rule.
The CAA has power to grant a dispensation.

[Arkroyal]

Never forget the first five words of the ANO:

An aircraft shall not fly......

Thankfully, the good lord will one day spare me from this crazy world where no one is allowed to either take, or be exposed to any risk whatsoever.

Had aeroplanes not been invented before such an age, they would not be allowed to exist at all.:yuk: