smith:
A friend of mine said it was due to the number of heli's going to the Morecombe bay gas fields
If Blackpool have used that as an excuse it has no basis. Blackpool had about 5000 commercial heli movements last year. Humberside and Norwich both about 7000, Scatsta 8000 and Aberdeen 37000. There's only two based commercial helis at Blackpool and anyway, why would they alter the risk level to fixed wing GA aircraft? They're always flown by two commercial pilots and operated under full JAR-OPS standards.
NS