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Old 22nd Feb 2013, 19:09
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Thone1
 
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Across the Channel they are a huge annoyance and an increasing risk to flight safety even apart from fake radar echoes.
Thinking about low cloud, low vis and SAR jobs, flying around under 500´is becoming increasingly dangerous, at night it´s a big no-go.
Sometimes even 700´ are not enough to avoid those huge rotor blades.

Quite a few of those parks are not in the charts because they spring up so quickly that no amendment can keep up with them.
And now add the odd operator that does build them to a height of 1 foot below the minimum height for publication in the charts and things get really interesting.

Also there might even be wind parks near airfields.
Of course that has nothing to do with the fact that some former station COs are holding functions in the communities that get funding for those projects...


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