Thanks to NLJs post and a few other snippets I can now piece together what I think happened here. In my opinion it goes something like this.
1)Risk assesment for Dr Rice's visit identifies sites and threats.
2)G-BDKD identified as a very minor threat. (My aircraft)
3)TRA planned as there is some percieved airborne threat. Lancs police to organise it.
4) Lancs Police Ops cock up the TRA dimensions missing off some sites visited and G-BDKD. Not too serious and probably too much trouble or too late to update the TRA. The only minor issue is G-BDKD which is not grounded by the TRA.
5) Easy fix is to send the boys round and put the frighteners on the owner to stop him flying.
Job done.
And it worked.
The only harm done is one pilot pi$$ed off and a few civil liberties trampled into the mud.
Lancashire Constabulary in the clear.
And no, it was not Lancs ASU I was concerned about. I know I was legally in the clear. I told them so.
It was the other veiled threat, trigger happy security services, however unlikely, that stopped me flying.
edited to remove my assumption that the security services would be American. See SASless's post below.
Last edited by Gaseous; 1st April 2006 at 23:00.