It is very noticeable the high proportion of 'occurences' now being infringements - but with ATC being instructed to report them I suppose it is inevitable. It does make me wonder what the purpose of it is though. The Flyontrack initative seems to have died and gone to heaven in terms of anything useful coming from it so that seems a shame.
Then we have a spate of new areas of CAS where the instigation of the airspace is not synchronised with the routine issue of new charts. Much of that new CAS further squeezes the natural transit routes.
So we seem to have an authority that does not want to learn lessons from a major user survey, that promulgates new airspace that isn't on the charts and forces VFR traffic into more choke points. None of this as a single issue is directly responsible for the busts - but it is scarcely helpful and very much indicative of an authority that believes in 'command and control'.
As for the types that cause them - well the higher the exposure hours are, the greater the number of busts and generally I would agree that on a per hour basis anyone who is 'rusty' must be at greater risk.
But again look at the number of TRAs that are springing up. The police seem to be a major source of them - perhaps they have just discovered it is a great way to ensure there operations do not get coverage from news gathering choppers. And then the class A airspace for HRH and family. None of this makes things any easier.
I spent a while this morning trying to sort out where operation Neptune Warrior would impact on my flying - the answer seems to be 'Scotland', which maybe explains the number of Tornados overflying the strip. But the time it needed to decode line after line of lat and long...
Probably just as well the wind is too strong!