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With any luck, it'll hiss it down with rain, there'll be a low cloud base, and strong winds throughout the games period - at least then, not being able to fly anyway, I won't feel aggrieved at all this Olympic nonsense and the restrictions it'll impose should the weather be good.
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With any luck, it'll hiss it down with rain, there'll be a low cloud base, and strong winds throughout the games period - at least then, not being able to fly anyway, I won't feel aggrieved at all this Olympic nonsense and the restrictions it'll impose should the weather be good.
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In fact, it's a fairly comprehensive summary of all the rules / procedures, adds some new info, and if you just VFR GA traffic, large sections of it do not apply.
However there are numerous exceptions for various airfields, operators and kinds of operations. If the CAA would NOT have published a comprehensive, 114-page guide ("bible" would be more appropriate) with all the exceptions, we would all be bitching about that there's not one single document which contained everything.
From my viewpoint from across the pond, I can only say that I find the way the MoD, CAA, AOPA and various other organizations involved have handled this remarkable. The security requirements that are laid down by the IOC are incredible and the fact that GA is allowed with, as far as I'm concerned, relatively few restrictions and procedures, is remarkable.
I seem to remember that in Greece, four years ago, GA was simply banned altogether, except for media helicopters covering the event.
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In fact, it's a fairly comprehensive summary of all the rules / procedures, adds some new info, and if you just VFR GA traffic, large sections of it do not apply.
In fact, it's a fairly comprehensive summary of all the rules / procedures, adds some new info, and if you just VFR GA traffic, large sections of it do not apply.
However there are numerous exceptions for various airfields, operators and kinds of operations. If the CAA would NOT have published a comprehensive, 114-page guide ("bible" would be more appropriate) with all the exceptions, we would all be bitching about that there's not one single document which contained everything.
From my viewpoint from across the pond, I can only say that I find the way the MoD, CAA, AOPA and various other organizations involved have handled this remarkable. The security requirements that are laid down by the IOC are incredible and the fact that GA is allowed with, as far as I'm concerned, relatively few restrictions and procedures, is remarkable.
I seem to remember that in Greece, four years ago, GA was simply banned altogether, except for media helicopters covering the event.
