Shoreham lists only 2 per hour during its opening times, but only 1 per hour during the early morning (PPR) times.
This is more or less unusable.
With Z and Y banned, I am trying to work out a way of departing V and then changing to I, or changing to a new flight plan, enroute.
Is it actually illegal to commence a flight plan from a given airport without departing from its runway e.g. by being overhead and talking to it?
One foreign ATCO told me that if I file V on a pre-validated Eurocontrol route (which is obviously trivial) then changing it to I while I am flying is very easy.
The thing to which I have been completely unable to get an answer is whether the UK will be getting Eurocontrol to implement the Z/Y ban. If they don't, then I cannot see why one could not just file I from the start but actually remain VFR OCAS in UK airspace. That meets the olympic security
requirements, after all.