TonyR - its not tosh - it happened to me yesterday. Mode A return suddenly sparks up overhead Weston. Pain in the backside but I'm not ranting and raving about it.
What will happen and is in the pipeline is a large increase in CAS to surround Cardiff and Bristol.
Now.
Do you want to fit at least a Mode C transponder to pretty much everything - which is NOT in the same league as going to the moon as some intimate - OR see ever larger chunks of airspace become Controlled?
I prefer the former as someone who flies many different classes of aircraft.
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