SS,
Maybe that is because I will be at work
But you'll get your paid leave later. You'd have something else to say if you were told your services weren't required for two months and you weren't getting paid over that period. How's your savings account?
Probably vetted as much as the staff at your local flying club where you hire the ac from have been!!
Cheap jibe, unwarranted and totally inaccurate. I don't hire from a flying club. In fact I never have. I get paid to fly someone else's aircraft. Just like you.
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I've also been asked to complete a GAR form for a visit I'm making in July to a hotel. I've politely refused on the basis that the form is completely inappropriate.
And under what authority have you can decided that? Obviously you think you are an authority on national security in the run up to the Olympics, so tell us what your plan would be!
Sid, just look up the rules, will you? A GAR is definitely
not required for an internal UK flight. It's not down to personal opinion. As I wrote earlier, I recently questioned the need to do this when it was demanded. It was referred to the Lancashire Police. They have confirmed the member of staff concerned was in error to demand one because the rules weren't understood.
A GAR will be required for flights into the Olympics airspace (Restricted and Prohibited areas). It's not required for all flights elsewhere, either now or during the Olympics. But I'm sure you know that.
Why don't you fill in a GAR form for all
your flights that involve an off-base landing? I'll give you a clue - you won't find it in the PAOM parts 1 or II, because in this particular instance it's not a matter of an aircraft being operated under a PAOC being given an exemption.
