Some basic air law questions.
Hi folks, studying is off to a good start and progressing well with the J. Pratt books. Currently on Air law, i've been noting some questions as i go and would appreciate some comments.
I have searched the forums and answered most of my questions but the ones below i couldn't probably due to not knowing exactly what is best to search for.
Anyway, with regards to units, there seems to be an awful lot of switching between feet and metres which could get confusing. For example in Airspace classes and VFR Minima, (law56 J. Pratt, PPL2) class D airspace has VFR Minima listed as:
At and above FL100; 8km flight vis, 1500m horizontally clear of cloud and 1000ft vertically clear of cloud.
Is this correct? Maybe i'm just paranoid but as an electronic engineer, mixing units like this leaves me suspicious!
The same thing is used in low flying rules:
"Aircraft may not take off and land within 1000m of an organised open air assembly of more than 1000 people..."
This is in the same paragraph as talking about 1000ft above the assembly.
Very confusing indeed. I'd get shot for doing that in my job!