I have had years of dealing with the CAA for air display exemptions, and they could not have been more helpful. There must have been some good reason why they have refused this one, and I suspect you gullible chaps are reacting to half a story here..
Permit to Fly (Spitfire) = No flight over congested areas, at all, at any height......
The CAA are only doing what the law says, and in refusing to grant an exemption, obviously think it's not a safe option to have a single engined P to F aircraft operating over a congested area such as Bedworth. The same reason why there were no single engined aircraft operating over London for the VE day flypast. The DC3, on a Transport Cat CofA, has been given permsission I hear..
Sounds a bit like "I cant have my Spitfire flypast, so I'll go to the media and kick up a fuss, and then when I cant get my own way, I'll write to my MP"
Mr Leach sounds like a spoilt child!
