Originally Posted by
Shunter
If I had my own strip I'd put them in without even giving it a second thought.
Once again, not the problem. There are a reasonable number of 'strip'/ unlicensed fields that have PCL are some other non-approved approach to lighting. It is specifically getting this at licensed fields that is the issue. In that case one has a business that requires a license and that license can be revoked on the basis of providing PCL. This is not a sensible risk to take - on the basis that the management pays many tens of thousands of pounds pa to comply with the license conditions it must be reasonably important to the management - so risking loosing it is just not a clever plan.
I strongly agree the rule is bonkers, but have no clue how to get the CAA to review and remove this rule and as another poster has mentioned, there are licensed fields with proactive management (who one assumes are more familiar with lobbying the CAA than most of us) who have tried and failed on this particular PITA rule.