Despite my views concerning the cruelty of the way in which treatment was so unpleasantly meted out to a certain person, I haven't gone off to another site to the exclusion of PPRuNe, it's just that I've only had very limited Internet access for the past few days. Not wishing to pursue the laws applying to libel, I will take your slighting reference to toys and prams as being made in jest, FNG.
My comments made to the CAA (and I discussed them at length with chum Tudor) concerning Rule 5 were:
"The conduct of legitimate emergency training exercises has frequently resulted in nugatory enforcement action by the Authority. I would welcome an opportunity under the (Rule 5 revision) proposal to introduce legal protection to FIs and student pilots teaching or practising approved emergency training exercises.
I consider that a new Sub-paragraph should be added to Sub-para (5) stating:
(An aircraft shall be exempt from compliance with: )
(m) paragraph (2) when being flown for the purpose of conducting routine emergency training with the prior approval of an authorised Flight Instructor.
I consider that such an amendment would give reasonable legal protection to the legitimate conduct of essential training exercises whilst maintaining protection for the general public from unauthorised low flying."
They didn't adopt it though.