Look at the CAA's low success rate in contested cases.
Look at the high percentage of Guilty pleas. Pilots plead Guily for many reasons. The two main reasons (in my experience at the Bar) are either that they have no defence or that they have a good defence but are afraid of the large sums they may be ordered to pay the CAA in prosecution costs if they fight the case and lose.
Motorist speeding and parking offences seem to exhibit the same pattern, and i'm sure many others do too. It appears that in many cases if one has the 'balls' to question the authorities (i.e plead not guilty) then one has a pretty good chance of winning.
I must agree with FL that some of those descriptions are a tad disingenuous -"flying under a motorway bridge" and "flying a microlight under the medway bridge" do conjour up ever so slightly different images!. (for those that don't know it, its hardly the millau viaduct, but it ain't small!)
WAS Tudor.
Have you moved on to another calling?
I beleive that FL should change his name to Flying Judge. 
