At one point last week there was a danger that we would not be able to land off airfield in controlled airspace as of 24th April, that got resolved on Friday but the whole ruleset is full of anomalies which are slowly going to kill the helicopter industry and probably more airfields over time.
One of the problems is that often what looks innocuous to start with has a twist put on it by a different group of aviation professionals (usually not maliciously) and we end up with one group feeling like they are obliged (or nor permitted) to allow another group to do what they need to do. Take my example above, a NATS interpretation of who could assess visibility at an 'aerodrome' was what they were basing the stop landing off airfield decision on, so controllers were being told to not permit it inside controlled airspace (not their fault) but almost no pilots knew about it.
ShyTorque you are spot on it is literally a case of
