I see that the MAA have recently redrafted the Military Rules of the Air using the nonsensical term “Air System” throughout rather than the far more sensible “Aircraft”.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...07_Issue_8.pdf
Looking at their own definition of “Air System’ in MAA 02 it hardly fits either:
Fixed or rotary wing Aircraft, piloted or remotely piloted, and the ground-based systems vital to their safe operation.
So their Rules of the Air now uses the term Air System and states that an “Air System should not be flown in such proximity to other Air Systems as to create a danger of collision”. How the hell does that fit if the ground-based systems are included?
What is wrong with the people in the MAA? Why do they have to make their documents so ridiculously complicated by using inappropriate words like “Air System” instead of the widely used “Aircraft”? If anyone from the MAA reads this can you please have a serious think about the readability of your document set. Here is a starter for ten from the Oxford Dictionary:
AIRCRAFT - An aeroplane, helicopter, or other machine capable of flight.
