mark147
OK, so does anyone know what was going on at Farnborough on Sunday afternoon?
Yes many pilots did obviously you did not
They had a 10nm radius temporary class A CTR up to 5,000 ft for an hour. But, having grabbed 200 cubic miles of airspace, they didn't even have anyone on their LARS frequency to offer transits or even remind people of the existance of the zone. I'd bet a fair amount that they had infringements.
It sounds like you were not flying at the time or had selected the wrong frequency, the guy's at EGLF were working their butts off. They were reminding pilots well before and during the CAS-T. many got SVFR clearances the ones that did not had to wait in turn. Infringements of the zone compound delays to pilots waiting for SVFR clearances.
The lack of LARS wasn't NOTAMed --
You will find it was NOTAMed, could this be a lack of flight planning perhaps??
LARS did close after the airspace had reverted to class G and the local airfields were informed. all aircraft on the freq were also informed of this individually. It remained closed for for 37mins to enable breaks and re-opened bandboxed. I believe this may be the period you are talking about.
Mark if you are going to post on the forum the least you can do is try and get the facts right without sensationalising.
Enjoy your flying and continue to give us a call.
PA