Its not controlled airspace.
Dundee can pass information on the activity of the site but as such they can't route traffic through it and neither can they stop traffic flying through it.
Its always had a bad reputation when jumping in progress but as DB6 states thankfully thats not very often. But its very hard to find out if jumping is going to be occuring until you get close. Then there is the debate about how much room round the place you need to go. I have heard aircraft on the otherside of the Tay going to fife get a mouthful from the jump plane pilot. If you stuck to the 1.5 mile radius nobody would have a problem but if anyone comes with 5 miles of the place all hell lets loose. And wed-sun during daylight hours is a load of rubbish. Do the RC lot and the birds of prey still get there knickers in a twist if anything goes near it?
They will have got scared because the TCAS will have got triggered by the rate of closure coupled with your desent rate and the crew won't have been visual with you.
So was the aircraft right overhead or was it 2 miles away and outside the 1.5 miles as stipulated. If the wind is such that you require more room quite frankly tough if its not safe don't drop you don't drop.
Last edited by mad_jock; 5th Sep 2012 at 21:22.