For my own education, can someone clarify the 500 foot rule. I know all about vehicle vessel and structure etc and that technicaly a fence or wall or roadway is a structure. I also know, as a f/w pilot that this is all ignored when lannding at a licenced airfield.
IANAL, but i don't think that the 500 foot rule differentiates between licenced/unlicenced - otherwise you couldn't land at Popham, for example. Trevor Thom, which is the best I can do right now, just says that the 500 foot rule doesn't apply during takeoff/landing "in accordance with normal aviation practice"