Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
Why 1500 feet?
I am admittedly a bit rusty on civil airlaw. Haven't used my CAA PPL since the 90s.
I dug out an old copy of Trevor Thom Airlaw Vol 2 which says:
LF Regs (Rule 5), flight over congested area: not below a height to land clear if an engine fails and not below 1500' above the highest fixed object within 600m of the ac, whichever is higher.
it also says no lower than 1000m of an open-air gathering of more than 1000 people. Maybe this one applies?
Has all this changed? I forgot all this stuff when I left the Chinook force 15 years ago.