Wow. If that is true my flying school are going to take some serious damage
Yup. Any aircraft not fitted with serviceable Mode-C (orS) transponder will be banned from flight in the area for the period. That's a lot of recreational and training aircraft currently based there. I believe the cost to the GA economy has been estimated in the order of several million pounds - to politicians and suchlike used to talking in
Billions, this is peanuts.
Still, it's only a month. It could be worse, in fact it was going to be two months.
The flame is on its way. Soon be over.
MB