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Old 5th August 2010 | 06:44
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BEagle
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
You want to try Wallingford Intergalactic Spaceport! Bumbling along on a simple VFR navex which entered their MATZ, but remained clear of their ATZ, I was given 'instructions' which would probably have made LHR's controllers blush.

I then asked for the London QNH, because our destination (White Waltham) was below the London TMA. "YOU SHOULD BE FLYING ON THE QFE!!" came the 'reply'..... Which was a bit of a surprise - all I'd wanted was some basic aeronautical information and I certainly hadn't said that I intended to change the altimeter setting inside their precious MATZ.

But the top prize for military overcontrol went to Carterton Field several years ago - I'd advised them that I would be passing through the overhead at FL50 climbing FL100 (for high-rot spinning). The top of the Class D CTR is 3500ft amsl, but they tried to control my activity at least 2000 ft above them. So they got mad_jock's "Hey-ho, squawking 7000, QSY en-route" treatment.... I also considered turning off Mode C at the zone boundary, but thought that a bit too childish even for me!

They're much better these days though.
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