Sennadog,
You keep looking out old chap, then you will spot these idiots long before they crash into you! Unfortunately, many of the flying clubs, schools and pilots of today have never even heard of 'Airmanship', let alone courteous flying! I suspect most of them have been to the school of lifemanship (Terry-Thomas in 'School for Scoundrels'), or failing that, the School of one-upmanship. I think it has something to do with the amount of jet-skiers taking up flying!
On the subject of A/G operators overstepping their authority, if you as the pilot believe a breach of the ANO and Air Traffic Regs has taken place, put in a Mandatory Occurence Report (MOR)to the Safety Information & Data Department at the CAA. If Pilots told somebody who could do something about it rather than just whingeing about it on PPRUNE, then it might prevent an accident. If there was to be a serious accident, which was due to A/G incompetence, then the powers that be may then decide we all need Air Traffic 'Control' and then we would all lose out!
And judging by the amount of Bill & Fred's useless chat on a certain 'unofficial' frequency, 'UNICOM' will never work here.
Rant over for now
[ 24 February 2002: Message edited by: Zlin526 ]
[ 24 February 2002: Message edited by: Zlin526 ]</p>