SVFR at LAX
This is a question for those that fly the LAX-area helicopter routes. Various news outlets are reporting that Ari Zobayan had incurred a violation in 2015 and part of the circumstances were that he had requested to transit LAX Class B airspace using SVFR. I don't have a helicopter route chart, but the terminal area chart (and, I believe, the sectional) show that the LAX Class B is "NO SVFR". As a non-commercial fixed wing pilot it would never even occur to me to try to ask for something like that--the message seems clear! So two questions--was this marking in place on the charts back in 2015? And, is this a hard and fast rule or is it something you can still request and have granted if circumstances permit?