Can someone elighten me - What has the pilot ( Ben ) actually done wrong here ?
What rules / regulations / laws have been broken if the place is NOT a National Park or Protected Area, and it is not marked on official charts as an "avoid" area ?
What, precisely, are the "legal implications" that he and his company might be dragged through ??
+1.
If you don't want people flying through a "protected" area, how about informing them via the approved channels/legal process of the areas' status.
Sounds almost "scammish" on the part of the authorities, this sort of bluster. (They wouldn't do that, would they?)