SEP Night flying

[Hotel-Mama]

From a US perspective, this is an odd thread.

Another big contrast between night flying in the UK and the US is the availability of places to take off and land at night. A large proportion of airfields in the US have pilot controlled lighting, and are quite relaxed about out of hours movements, which really opens up the possibilities. That is one of the main reasons that the majority of the night hours in my logbook are in the US, despite most of my total hours being in the UK. With the CAA’s laudable relaxation of restrictions on PCL at licenced airfields a few years ago, I did hope that PCL would become more common in the UK. Alas, it does not seem to have happened yet. It would be very good publicity to become one of the first in the UK to boast PCL, so come on, you airfield operators out there….