Restricted area R104
 

Living in the area of the above avoid (SW of Reading), I'm amazed at the number of "Puddle Jumpers" that continue to fly across the site at altitudes lower then the 2.4 marked on the 1/4 and 1/2 mil maps.
Places such as Burghfield AWE need to be protected, especially as I live within its fallout area!

I glide at Weston on the Green and you would be surprised at the number of a/c that bore straight across the airfield. One last year got done in the local court for several hundred pounds. It boiled down to he was navigating on GPS and hadn`t looked at the map.

We ( the Gliding Club ) have a delicate but working arrangement with the parachutists and don`t want it spoiled.

The paras at Weston jump at any time of the day from up to 12,500 ft and there can be 12 of them falling free to 2 or 3,000 before opening their `chutes.

They operate up to 4 a/c at a time so you are not safe even if you have seen 12 land.

Read the map. Stay away.

Regards

Mike W

Bigwindy,

I think it would take more than a light aircraft to cause a big bang (have you seen the wall thickness of a reactor shell) but it would still make one hell of a nasty mess. Strangely enough, those danger areas on your chart are not there just for fun people.

Skylark4,
It seems that people don't appreciate the following :

a) a steel cable WILL cut your wings off.

b) a parachutist WILL knock your wings off

c) a glider head on is EXTREMELY difficult to see

Back in the days when RAF Brawdy was active, we had a Hawk come through the (800') circuit at 500'. Scared the living daylights out of a poor guy in a C150. Ask anybody who flew in East Anglia when the A-10's were there what a pain they were.

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When the wheels stop turning you're high enuff. CubTrek. To slowly go...

If God didn't want us to overfly Weston on the Green why did he put you between Daventry and Compton?