National CAA policies around Europe on busting pilots who bust controlled airspace (and danger areas)

It is quite astonishing that this was put in writing though.

Indeed.

Reportedly GA activity is down, GPS usage is increasing, yet reported infringements are increasing and perceived as a life threatening problem. I’d like to know how their logic flows.

He says that GA activity is constant, which is an interesting bit of info (if true; I have never seen any evidence of such data having been published although the CAA does have data on hours from medical etc applications), and the rest is nonsense.

Infringements with loss of separation are actually going down steadily.

More likely, because this new CAA policy is penetrating into the ATC machine and they are getting fed up with writing up the reports. So they are getting more proactive.

And we see exactly this when flying. On a recent flight EGKA GWC CPT… I obviously called up Farnborough ASAP out of EGKA and told them my route. However around GWC they evidently got a panicky call from Solent because the track EGKA-GWC heads towards SAM. Instead of telling Solent I was turning at GWC towards CPT, they transferred me to Solent for a “service”. Well, obviously Solent wanted to watch me, notwithstanding that they enthusiastically busted 2 people for touching the edge of their CAS recently (both 1st time offenders and got Gasco so both will have licenses pulled if they do another within 2 years). They had no idea of my route, so I told them. They handed me back over to Farnborough pretty quickly. So ATC, everywhere according to reports, are getting really pro-active, and since there is no comeback on them (unless there is a loss of sep) it must be because they don’t want to waste time writing reports, and want to avoid total screwups where sep is lost.

What do you mean by FMC use?

FMC is the latest trendy acronym for a listening squawk.

Dont be fooled into thinking FMC or a basic service in the UK being provided, will assist you .

Of course it will not All the time you are OCAS they are unlikely to call you, and once you touch CAS it is an MOR and you are busted, and if there is Gasco capacity you will usually get Gasco the 1st time.

I can see an official Loss of Separation is less likely, with a listening squawk, simply because they can call you faster. But still very likely if you do it in the “wrong place”, due to the 5000ft/5nm add-on. Almost anywhere in the LTMA for example, if you add 5k vertically, there is likely to be a jet there at some (fairly likely) moment. That’s because the 5k add-on is totally ridiculous, not because the pilot was a d1ckhead.

The double speak of the civil service response provided

Indeed; I found that response utterly mind boggling. It’s somebody from a different universe.

Unfortunately the response is real, from one of the policy drivers, so we need to take it seriously and try to work out what it may mean.