Originally Posted by
Jan Olieslagers
Jock, are you saying (or are you saying someone is saying) my non transponder equipped three-axis microlight would be allowed into class D in the UK? Always?
I regularly fly non transponder equipped microlights around UK airspace (actually mostly flexwings at present, as 1/10th of a Rollason Condor seems quite microlighty enough without needing to specifically fill up the 3-axis microlight column of my logbook, and as it happens, that has a functioning transponder).
I can't recall ever being refused entry to class D; I've occasionally been asked to modify my routing, which is fair enough if I'm using the airspace around a reasonably major airport. I probably do get asked to modify my routing a bit more often and make more position reports when I am not squawking, but presumably that's simply because the controller has less confidence about where exactly I am.
G