In response to the question :-
"it seems strange that no pilots who read this thread have written of their experience, what subsequently happened or why they ended up in CAS.
Sort of I learnt about flying from that!"
I suppose I could mention a hypothetical pilot, out having a bimple on a Sunday afternoon a couple of years ago, who was around near Billingshurst heading south ish at 2,500 feet in the sort of weather we have had of late, sunny periods and scattered showers, who altered course to the east, to avoid one of the showers, not wanting to go IMC and get bumped about, without realising just how close he / she (the hypothetical pilot) was to Gatwick's zone.
As said hypothetical pilot was in receipt of a FIS from Farnborough, the FIS controller (may all his lottery tickets be winners) asked our "hero" if he realised he was infringing Gatwick's zone and politely suggested that he might like to make his heading 270 degrees, before the situation became any worse, preferably fairly promptly.
Said hypothetical pilot very smartly did so, feeling exceptionally foolish and extremely chastened and vowed never to make such a damn fool mistake ever, ever, ever again.
And as far as we al know he / she never has (if of course the episode ever happened at all).
A license to fly is a license to learn and learn that pilot most certainly did - about that terrible pair of killers, for whom there is no excuse, inattention and distraction.
TMF
