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Old 14th Nov 2014, 11:27
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Perhaps when you are flying your old crate,not talking or squawking,give a thought that you might just be causing problems to the Class G airfield you are looking at.
Brilliant if that is the case, then they can report that the rules are a load of bollocks.

Hopefully the RAF prat that designed them has left the CAA, They can then get together a working group of ATCO's who also hold a mixture of licenses from PPL through to ATPL with instructors in there as well.

Something sensible can be created which none UK pilots have a clue how it works. Hint call the normal ICAO FIS a FIS. It can be based on flight rules and use the idea that aircraft that can see each other will avoid each other.

Then put this current utter abortion of a system out of its misery.

Then maybe the number of airprox's will reduce to previous levels.

The old heap is about right.

But the mandate to squawk and talk for a commercial TP is just the same as a SEP light aircraft in the various flavours of controlled airspace. Ie if we are VFR or IFR in class G we have no requirement to talk to anyone. BUt duty of care and arse covering with pax onboard means we will. Empty is a different ball game.

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