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Old 19th Mar 2016, 14:21
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ShyTorque

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I do wonder about some decisions made in the enforcement branch of the CAA.

As a chief pilot of a helicopter operation I was asked to respond to a quite threatening letter from them following accusations by a local resident of multiple, daily breaches of the "Low flying" rules, by all of our pilots, myself included, when flying in and out of our base.

I pointed out that we were limited by a number of factors when taking off and landing at our base, but our operations complied with all of the low flying regulations. Even though, as a police operation, we were actually exempt from them.

I seemed to be having to tell the CAA what their own rules were. They should already have known that the 500 foot rule doesn't apply to aircraft taking off or landing and because our newly commissioned (and CAA approved) base wasn't in a congested area, the 1,000 foot rule was never a factor.
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