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Large prohibited areas in the UK July / August 2018

Private pilots will plot the points and draw them on their paper charts, because that’s part of flying, that’s what we all do and no-one uses electronic navigation aids or sources of information.

If putting sarcasm on the internet, it is necessary to make it very obvious and you did that correctly

I’d add one thing:

Commercial pilots don’t worry about it as their ops department takes care of it.

Actually they fly almost totally in CAS and most of these RAs are OCAS. Also they fly under ATC control and when flying thus, ATC keep you away from anything active. This is why enroute notams are almost never looked at for such flights – one of the advantages of having an IR

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Here is another – a Belgian pilot got a £5000 fine for this one some years ago

This time it is for just a short part of one day. On previous occassions the area was closed for several days, IIRC.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

I called Brize and Farnborough about some of the restrictions as some of them have a component where is says if you are in receipt of a service then entry is possible.
The controllers were very relaxed and very helpful.
Went something like…
I’m trying to work out the best times to avoid but my flight is close to ending and starting times. If it doesn’t work out perfectly for me I’m going to be looking for an entry clearance. How likely is it that I’m actually going to get that……

Reply…..should be fine sir, we’re not actually too busy today and we’ve got everything on radar with enough space to keep everything moving. Give us an early call and you probably be right through.

How’d it go?
Easy peasy.

United Kingdom

The Eastbourne air show in on mid August. There is likely to be a prohibited zone for the whole week.

My post #12 was something much smaller…

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom
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