Like many, I read the AAIB report, and thought,
"In this day and age, How can that have been allowed to happen ?"
Then I drew an analogy with driving a car on the roads :
How do you stop people driving on a road without a Licence,
or in a car that is unroadworthy / not legal to be driven on a road ?
Answer - You can't, BUT you can try to minimise it from happening by educating
those that might be tempted as to the consequences, and then by enforcing the Law.
Lots of drivers do get caught, then they are prosecuted, get fined, go to prison, have their cars seized and crushed etc.
Hopefully the punishment they receive deters them and others from doing the same again.
There are lots ( but not as many as there used to be ) of Police Officers out there
actively looking for them,
assisted by cameras that read car number plates, and databases that alert them to any wrong doing.
Who is out there
actively looking at preventing pilots from flying when they shouldn't be,
or checking aircraft that are flying when they shouldn't be in the air ?
Perhaps no further regulation is needed, after all if the pilot of the Gazelle in this incident had followed the exisiting regulations,
this incident would not have happened, so perhaps a little more checking that exisiting regulations are being complied with wouldn't be a bad thing ?
