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Looking for an old UK CAA VFR chart (UK post CAS infringement procedure)

quatrelle wrote:

, the alternative would be that almost every sector would have a differerent QNH, you would be constantly changing levels trying to keep up with it

The Americans seem to be able to cope with it – they’ve had flight levels start at FL180 for decades at this point.

Andreas IOM

[name removed on CAA request] is indeed an active light GA flyer, we are in an AA5 group together and he flies a lot. I’m not putting any other personal info’ about him on a forum.

strip near EGGW

Since he is obviously not flying with a chart from 1999, the mystery deepens as to who composed and is responsible for that question bank.

Someone evidently quite close to him has posted this on one UK site:

As a piece of trivia, I did a trace on the Special Delivery letter sent to [name removed on CAA request] about the bogus question(s), in June (phone calls and emails all went awol). It shows as never delivered! Usually this means the postman delivered it but forgot to get the signature. So I will get my £7 back

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Joe-fbs wrote:

[name removed on CAA request] is indeed an active light GA flyer, we are in an AA5 group together and he flies a lot. I’m not putting any other personal info’ about him on a forum.

In that case why is the question bank in the state it is, with questions relating to charts that are no longer published? It could be a simple oversight (such as the question writer writing the question as he/she remembers things being charted, rather than looking at the latest edition of a CAA VFR chart), but these things need to be corrected.

I would also agree with Peter that the question about airspace depicted as a flight level is nonsense, and the CAA should be encouraging people operating near such airspace to be using 1013mb rather than the regional QNH. Surely an active GA flyer can see how this makes sense, and would help avoid future infringements?

Andreas IOM

I’d say it’s more likely cock-up than conspiracy on the tutorial/test front.

Someone built a nice little tutorial and it was implemented. They needed a test, so they just grabbed some questions from the PPL exams – which are, as you demonstrate, very old and often somewhat flawed. To have built a new test from scratch would have (a) taken time and resources, and (b) implicitly admitted that the PPL exams on the subject weren’t up to scratch.

[name removed on CAA request] response (or lack thereof) is probably because to investigate the issue properly would mean he’d have to:

(a) learn an awful lot about the way something is done/managed, something that someone under him is paid to look after;
(b) discipline someone for not doing their job properly;
(c) oversee an overhaul of not only that tutorial/test, but of the PPL exams.

None of the above are likely to be things he wants to do.

EGLM & EGTN

I would believe that Graham if it wasn’t for the (probably) hundreds of people doing that process (especially the bogus online test) every year, and really nobody making a complaint? Obviously I think many people go through the process and just get it done and keep their mouth shut. One FI I spoke to recently said he does this (the 3rd option) all the time. Reportedly there are about 1000 CAS bust actions a year in the UK.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

According to the video at https://airspacesafety.com/facts-stats-and-incidents only 44% of pilots pass the test associated with the infringement tutorial.

Andreas IOM

Well found alioth

They are pretending that their priority is on education. Well, it may be, but they are doing it very badly with this “maximum foul taste in the mouth” approach.

In half the time it took somebody to produce that slick video, they could have put some relevant and correct questions into the QB. Anybody who actually flies a plane will spot the duff ones immediately.

The youtube version of the video is here


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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

2greens1red wrote:

1) Assuming you were VFR, talked to Farnborough East, even on Basic – they would have given you the relevant QNH, and almost certainly, having identified you, would have warned about the TMA.

A few days ago I was in touch with the Brize Norton Zone ATC for a zone transit. Once I had left their CTR it was a “basic service outside”. I was using SkyDemon and knew where I was, but at times I got very close to the London TMA and they never once bothered to warn me about its proximity. The frequency was very quiet also, I was pretty much the only traffic on frequency.

So I wouldn’t rely on controllers warning you about imminent CAS busts. I am sure that Brize ATC would have happily said nothing while I busted the London TMA.

EDDW, Germany

So I wouldn’t rely on controllers warning you about imminent CAS busts. I am sure that Brize ATC would have happily said nothing while I busted the London TMA.

That’s correct; no obligation on ATC to warn of a CAS bust. I think that is true for VFR traffic everywhere, not just the UK, but the UK is probably exceptional in that you can be under a radar unit and they will still MOR you if you infringe.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom
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