Visual Pilot Guides for the UK

[Aussie Andy]

Read in RIN magazine article that CAA are going to introduce some Visual Guides, similar to Australian VPGs, to help people prep. for flight through squeezy bits of airspace, such as some VFR coridors etc.

See http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58227 and also http://www.casa.gov.au/avreg/pilot/pilotgde.htm

[Lowtimer]

They had some material relevant to this on display at the PFA rally at Cranfield. Looked useful.

[alphaalpha]

Yes, I talked to a chap from d.a.p. (Howard) at Cranfield. It's part of the program to reduce cas busts. The idea, I think, is to put the photos & notes on the caa website so if you're, for example, going through the Machester/Liverpool low-level corridor, you can review and print off pictures of the navigation points. I've been to Barton a couple of times, but I never knew what Thelwall Viaduct looked like until I saw the pic.

Having used the Oz VFR guide for the Bankstown area, I think it is a very good idea indeed. If you agree (or if you don't) tell the CAA, they want feedback.

[QDMQDMQDM]

One place the CAA want feedback is on the forum at www.flyontrack.co.uk

It's quite an interesting site and the discussions about airspace busts are worth reading. There's a lot of discussion about the Oz guides and how good they are.

I have just started flying down here in the empty Southwest and having looked at that website (and the 1/2 mil map), I'm now rather terrified of venturing upcountry!

QDM