Originally Posted by
Blackfriar
A few years ago we had a single piston-engined vintage helicopter reglarly fly low (below 1,000ft) overhead on certain weekends. This was not long after a couple of high profie helicopter crashes in urban areas.
A bit of investigation found that I could pay for a flight in this device, despite it being flown by a PPL. A quick email to the CAA and a phone call from them to ask me a few questions and it all stopped. So it seems like the rotary enforcer at CAA is doing their job.
So they stopped, but were not prosecuted; they were handed down no sentence and paid no fine; they kept the profits of their enterprise.
That's OK, is it?