Why is this restricted airspace please anyone?
Prison, helicopters only but gliders & fixed wings are ok, overfly not landing ofc 
It is for one of Her Majesty’s Prisons, and only applies to helicopters.
Yes, HMP Woodhill.
I’ve never understood this kind of restriction. It is a crime to help people escape from prison and if you intend to commit a crime, why would you be deterred by an R-area?
I assume they also don’t want people dropping things into the prison.
You can still overfly to 1000ft on gliders or microlights? I am assuming it avoids fake alerts anytime a helicopter flies over? (and we all know how UK military helicopters tend to fly in straight lines over every airfield, ATZ or bit of G-airspace at 1000ft agl )
To be fair, I don’t think that small 2400ft “P-airspace” if much of an issue even for fixed wings, I would not bother cruising cross country lower than that in aeroplanes and in gliders the two times I was at 2400ft over Milton Keynes the landing end up in Cranfield & Holdback farm rather than my home base
JasonC wrote:
I assume they also don’t want people dropping things into the prison.
Same thing. If you’re going to do something illegal anyway, why let the the R-area stop you?
Thank you all
No restriction: fly regularly over at 510’. AGL.
Once it’s become commonplace, occasionally drop something small.
