Before anyone gets too keen on nailing the pilot, just imagine this....
Reporter rings flying organisation and says we need some arial photos of Sizewell for an anti-nuclear story, can you help? Why yes, of course they can they need the cash, right? Pilot takes up reporter and photographer – who have identifired themselves & used a company credit card etc for payment - complete with camera bag and numerous lenses etc so they look the part too. At this point I take it there is now an exclusion zone around Sizewell (my old 2001 map has it marked but no zone of any discription), but how high and what diameter. Here in France most Nuclear power stations are marked on the map and are marked ‘do not fly below 1000ft, 600m radius’. We all know that to non-pilots heights are deceptive, 1500ft seems low to alot of poeple. Am I the only one here that can imagine the pilot actually kept to all the rules but the reporter exagerated about the height? Or asked if they could go lower for that extra shot? So pilot complied but out over the sea away from the site. Maybe they even pressured the pilot to go lower etc.
I think a little more needs to be told before we judge here, and about the bag of sugar....well
