Originally Posted by
LookingForAJob
Don't know if this is at the root of your question but SERA.5005 (b) says
Except when a special VFR clearance is obtained from an air traffic control unit, VFR flights shall not take off or land at an aerodrome within a control zone, or enter the aerodrome traffic zone or aerodrome traffic circuit when the reported meteorological conditions at that aerodrome are below the following minima:
(1) the ceiling is less than 450 m (1 500 ft); or
(2) the ground visibility is less than 5 km.
This was law from, at the latest, December 2014 across EU States. There has been an update and extension to SERA since then but I don't think it has changed this bit. I'm not in the UK and not up to speed with UK compliance, but maybe something got deferred for a while and is changing only now.
HTH
Gets a bit messy when there's no reported Met at an "aerodrome" inside a control zone of a.n.other aerodrome.
(All landing sites, I believe, are now "aerodromes", whether licensed or not...)
What Met do you use then? The Met from the aerodrome that has the control zone established around it?
This is going to get messy....