Fenland_Flyer wrote:
I fly all over Europe and the CTA to and from our own grass strip and am well known to Customs and Special Branch with never an issue.
Do the Channel Islands and some other bits of the CTA (or all of it) not require a Certificate of Agreement airfield?
Graham – not as far as I am aware and I have been doing it for decades with no issues at all. I travel often to Republic of Ireland from home and do the usual GAR and land at a Customs etc. airport in Ireland (used to be Sligo but not sure now, not been this year).
The CI require a cert of agreement, but not the Republic of Ireland.
That’s because the CI are outside the EU. Therefore customs are required. Normally customs checks aren’t needed between EU countries.
So from UK to CI no customs but a GAR is required
No change to the GAR form notice periods – confirmed today.
It looks like the UK is just keeping the wording the same.
So: all non customs and excise designated aerodromes have been covered with an interim CoA. But before flying to any such UK aerodrome, you still need to check with them if they are covered by the interim CoA…
Any non-CoA airport that had past GAR forms in last 5 years is eligible to an “interim CoA” now just matter of putting two stickers & phone numbers around, but yes some would not have gone through that effort, so one has to check…
Strange new GAR process for UK
Will be flying back to the UK tomorrow, into my strip, therefore clearing customs and immigration by email and online.
Amongst all the myriad forms and procedures that are required these days I filed my GAR using GARonline, as I have done for years.
I then forwarded the confirmation form from GARonline to the relevant Immigration people at Bristol Airport, along with the Immigration Clearance form.
Got an email back requesting me to send them the GAR info by filling in an xl spreadsheet and sending it back.
Has anyone else been required to do this. The xl spreadhseet had a number of errors, strange formatting, and kept causing my Mac to freeze. Is this just normal UK govt software incompetence?
