Sounds very odd Si, I have now taken 2800 images on my 400D since December and not had any problems. I suggest you return it if still in warranty.

Most of the drive for scrap was a planned method of raising the morale on the home front so that people felt they were helping. The pots, pans and teapots were still piled high in a Blackpool scrap yard in the mid sixties . I used to see them from the top deck of the bus but was really looking at half a dozen mixed aircraft canopies !

No database Garry because so much was taken before the rules came in to being by scrapdealers and also individuals carried down parts off high ground wrecks for their own collections. Was it yourself that I wrote too regarding the Plynlimon P38 wreck site? I recall that site being slowly reduced from an 80 percent complete wreck in the mid sixties?
If you look at the list of acknowledgements in David j Smiths earlier editions of High ground Wrecks you will see the names of the most active researchers who all kept their own files. I am listed and have helped with info, but I stopped updating my Uk wide files in the 80s.

In recent years a new type of determined organised wreck recovery group has emerged in the UK. By staying focused on one type and being systematic the Whitley group have made good progress and may well achieve a full rebuild.

The Albacore at RNAS Yeovilton is a composite from UK crash sites.

Mike, speaking as former RAF air traffic bod , there is a much simpler system which we used when a flight plan was not filed. We phoned the destination and stated callsign , type, pob and ETA . If an aircraft was not in contact with the destination at the ETA we followed a sequence of actions based on time overdue.This system has been in use for many years and works well.

I do not believe that the current UK system could cope with every landaway movement generating a flight plan and would be tricky where the departure point has no access to good comms to file a plan although I am aware an airborne flight plan can be filed.

It is easy to leave a route and eta with a friend and tell them who to contact if overdue.In my club we leave route details etc on a wall board as a reference.And all the club aircraft have ELBs.

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And as you say Bex operated by qualified staff and only the trained and well tested are allowed on the rails.In contrast the UK road system is open to all after one test plus the unlicenced and we all know about the daily injuries and deaths on the roads. By contrast the rail and air travel are much safer but sadly the media highlight accidents which occur using rail and air.

Yes its odd that there are echoes of catch 22 in all this affair.

Next they will be charging people too use the RAF roundel.

Most sensible people I have met in Scotland see breaking away as a total nonsense.It will never happen because people can look around Europe and see the folly of breaking up a working union. People want their basic needs met before all the guff about freedom.Yes it is fine to value the historical sites of Scotland but it is sloppy thinking to believe in some wonderland of Scotland on its own. The politicians who want it are only after power for themselves.