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Old 6th Feb 2012, 11:10
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GQ, you can bow out if you wish, but as you were never central to the original post, that will not matter.

We certainly should not drop the matter of infringements, real or otherwise.

Someone flew a C130, possibly not the RAF, close enough to Perth for it to be talked about. We should let the Airprox board establish if it was inside the ATZ or not.

As for the Typhoon, we'll possibly never know if the pilot was talking to anyone at Balado, or indeed where the Typhoon was from. The trials unit at Warton have been known to go that far north, so once again, it might not have been an RAF aircraft.

I'm not suggesting that anyone needs to be taken out the back and shot for it, but Perth and Balado have a high amount of trainees in the circuit. We need to accept that a student will not have the same standard of lookout as a more experienced pilot.

Particularly in the circuit, where their is an expectation of some degree of being protected by knowing all the traffic around you, lookout can slip down the list of priorities for students.

Imagine a student on right base for 27 at Perth meeting a C130 coming up the A94 below 500 feet!
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