Originally Posted by smarthawke
With Permit aircraft still unable to cross built up areas at any height...
There's encouraging movement on that front as well; the PFA submitted a paper to the CAA proposing removal of that restriction about 3 weeks ago, according to Graham Newby on the PFA bulletin board.
I have to say that this initiative, the overflight removal one, a possible upcoming EASA "Experimental" category and potentially a more accessible JAA IR are all reasons to be more positive about GA operations than for several years. (OK, there are some opposing negative issues such as encroaching CAS, Mode S, much more commercial traffic in Class G etc, but on balance I'm feeling the glass is being topped up to half full.
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