chester2005
If this is true surely someone will have noted the registration for forwarding to the CAA?
As it happened in the UK, there's a very high chance someone (or several) did.
TOT
"in a small car parking space
ALONG SIDE side the cars"
If you were so bothered about that (enough to tell everyone on the forum about it), why didn't you introduce yourself as a fellow pilot and tell him in a friendly pilot-to-pilot way?
If your concern was valid, he would have had a chance to learn from it.
If he disagreed with your opinion, you could just agree to differ.
Drinks a beer
wanders back to the car park
and flies away.
Same question.
Why didn't you speak to him and discuss it?
If it was normal beer (not the non-alcoholic copy) it might have deterred him from taking off, or from doing it again, for flight safety and 'image' reasons.
Even if non-alcoholic, it might have made him consider the 'image' aspect in future.
paco
Which part of Rule 5 have you got in mind?
The 500' requirement doesn't apply to landing and taking off or we'd be in breach at many private sites.
Heliport