Originally Posted by
Toadpool
The crazy thing, at least in the UK, is that a plain PPL can fly VFR in most class D airspace with a flight vis of at least 5km. But for SVFR in the same airspace a minimum vis of 10km is required

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Yep. Crazy. A bonus of 5Km and the ATCO has to provide separation. One sure way of unnecessarily clogging up a CTR. Anybody know when the London CTR due to go Class C?