Originally Posted by BEagle
Yet there are still some GA pilots who think that an infringement doesn't really matter if it didn't actually affect anyone else at the time....
A couple of years ago there was a R-44 pilot who decided to some hover training about a mile and a half from the threshold of RWY16 at YMML (the active) in the middle of the midday gaggle. All arrivals and departures cancelled for 30 min as desperate attempts were made to contact the pilot. Eventually Cpt Doofus realised the error of his ways, and promptly switched off his transponder and high-tailed it for a secondary aerodrome to the south. Unfortunately he obviously wasn't aware of the capabilities of primary radar, and subsequent enquiries discovered that there only one R-44 of that particular colour at said aerodrome.
I don't think the patterns were cleared until well after the evening peak died off. He would have cost the industry
millions that day
