UK CAA legalises pilot controlled lighting

here local copy

It was always legal at unlicensed aerodromes, though virtually nobody was aware of it since the regs were written in the reverse sense, and it was only within the last year or so that somebody managed to spot the potential. So for all those years, the use of PCL at many airfields was blocked purely by FUD.

Now it is legal at licensed aerodromes too. These have some differences

• they are required for AOC traffic
• they get CAA protection from the erection (or gradual growing) of runway obstructions
• they used to be required for PPL training, until recently