Olympics Airspace Closure
The St. James Park altitude restriction is probably because of the Olympic football games... Which should mean that there are other similar restrictions around the other football stadia being used during the games.
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And who the hell would fly over Newcastle at less than 2500ft anyway in a SEP anyway?
Sorry - bit of a personal pet hate of mine.....
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The St. James Park altitude restriction is probably because of the Olympic football games... Which should mean that there are other similar restrictions around the other football stadia being used during the games.
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And who the hell would fly over Newcastle at less than 2500ft anyway in a SEP anyway?
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There are number of these dodgy VFR arrivals with no chance of a glide clear at various airports.
They usually claim that you don't have to because its for the purposes of landing. Utterly daft though.
They usually claim that you don't have to because its for the purposes of landing. Utterly daft though.
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Wow. If that is true my flying school are going to take some serious damage
Still, it's only a month. It could be worse, in fact it was going to be two months.
The flame is on its way. Soon be over.
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and then pretend that they've complied with the land-clear rule !
We ain't no chicken. Our plane is maintained well and certified.
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We all fly over big cities all the time
We ain't no fool.
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We havent got many big cities, and the most "important" is also the smallest (the city of london) which is actually part of a town (the larger town of london) so you see its not very often a problem in a small island such as ours.
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I certainly don't unless I am in a twin.
And it all depends where you are and where you want to go even in the Highlands we have to skirt round flying over a city not a big one mind its just the fact that its bang in the way of going from the airport to one of the major scenic attractions in the area ie the Great Glen.
Some airports who have been surrounded by houses you just can;t if you want to land there. Then local procedures force you low VFR to keep you under the IFR inbounds.
Tiz a good job that engine failure is a very unlikely event.
And it all depends where you are and where you want to go even in the Highlands we have to skirt round flying over a city not a big one mind its just the fact that its bang in the way of going from the airport to one of the major scenic attractions in the area ie the Great Glen.
Some airports who have been surrounded by houses you just can;t if you want to land there. Then local procedures force you low VFR to keep you under the IFR inbounds.
Tiz a good job that engine failure is a very unlikely event.
As an aside, they used to build Sopwith Camels in a factory next to Newcastle town moor, and fly them from there too. And one of my hang-gliding instructors taught himself to fly by doing bunny-hops down the hillocks at the far end...
Different times.
Different times.
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