Steveking, That was my thought exactly. Our school is microlights, and none of our aircraft have transponders, and we are in the restricted zone. So, that basically means we are grounded from mid July to mid September. Now, given the olympics are 27 July to 12 August (which is 2 weeks), why the **** is there going to be an 8 week ban.
Are they worried that someone is going to take off 2 weeks before the olympics, and just keep circling in the clouds (in their radar invisible plane) so as to make something happen.
And as for a month afterwards, if that's the post-olympic party, I wanna go.
I think we should all lobby our representitive bodies (BMAA, LAA etc) and ask them to get involved.
I really hope it doesn't kill any businesses. That would be a disaster...Olympics come to town, businesses down the pan!
IPZ