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Old 14th Nov 2016, 19:32
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Wasn't there a very well publicised CAA prosecution some years ago where the pilot was doing just what abdg suggested at an unlicensed strip but someone with a chip on his shoulder was at or near the threshold and claimed he'd had his life in danger. The pilot indeed tried to claim "normal aviation practice" for his go around but the law felt otherwise and he was "done" somewhat brutally iirc.
I do remember one quite some time ago when an account of court proceedings sounded all very reasonable, and it seemed the pilot was being prosecuted for making the choice to make a safe go around instead of landing on a possibly unsafe strip … until I got to the bit that described the subsequent low-level aileron roll as the pilot's "signal to the accompanying aircraft that the strip was unsuitable"…
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