Blair 'grounds' GA
 

From the BBC...

All private aircraft have been grounded and no flights allowed on the normally busy flightpaths over London until further notice.

The full link Here

0001-1900 unl (J1270/01)
Temporary restricted area. Owing to the international emergency situation following terrorist attacks in the USA, Emergency Restriction of Flying Regulations have been made by the Secretary of State for Transport Local Government and the Regions under Article 85 of the Air Navigation Order 2000 encompassing ALL UK land area and 12nms territorial waters.

Aircraft not operated under an Air Operators certificate or a Police Air Operators Certificate (AOC/PAOC) SHALL NOT FLY INTO or TAKE OFF from ANY place within the designated area without the permission of the CAA Director of Airspace Policy(The Delegated Emergency Controlling)Contact telephone numbers 020 7453 6589, 020 7453 6588,or 020 7453 6599 ATC units close to the incident area are requested to advise acft on their frequencies of the contents of this notam. All acft inflight that are affected are to land as soon as possible

A small problem for most of us, in the grand scheme of things although of course, I am concerned for anyone whose livelihood depends on GA. Here's hoping the world regains its sanity before too long.

Andy

This seems like an over reaction to me.

I would have thought that vehicle bombs would be far more likely to be a.

This smacks of the Dangerous Dogs Act to me -knee jerk and of little value.

If terrorists wish to use GA aircraft, this action will be of little help - these people are clever enough to acquire a/c from fields close enought to targets to make interception unlikely.

The temporary restriction has apparently now been lifted... the "Red Arrows" number no longer mentions it, and the current A8 bulletin (issued 12 SEP 1559 - see http://www.ais.org.uk/filestor/A8CUR.txt ) no longer includes the restriction as above.

Andy

[ 12 September 2001: Message edited by: Aussie Andy ]

Thank goodness for that. Mind you, I think we should all be careful about our route planning for a while, certain people with more expensive aeroplanes than ours may be a bit twitchy for a while. And quite right too, I'd be worried if they weren't.

Radio 4 last night was saying that the FBI has identified a link to a Florida flight school, and although it wasn't named there's a fair bet it'll be one which does courses for foreigners. So any of us who have done courses in Florida might well have met and drunk coffee with one or more of the bastards who did this. A very chilling thought.

G

[ 13 September 2001: Message edited by: Genghis the Engineer ]

I'm planning a trip to Wolverhampton on Sunday - I hope its not considered strategic enough to make our mil. friends twitchy!?

Andy

Better brush up on ICAO Annex 2... :)

That's the one.

Whats the situation now? Will I be able to fly a Tiger Moth about Cambridge on Saturday?

Take a look at
http://www.ais.org.uk/