Avid, hi. I know it is a little difficult to chill out or even cool down with the weather as it is at the moment – still 80+ here at 22:15 – but please try.
“To suggest that a microlight could be used for an act of terrorism is outrageous.”
Unfortunately any light aircraft/flying machine could be used for terrorist purposes and we must live with that knowledge and ensure it does not happen.
“In the end it turned out that the pilot was innocent, he had been blown off course into the TRA and his radio was bust – giving the impressionthat us microlighters fly around with bust radios, bumble into restricted airspace “
Again the truth is that this does occour, both with microlights and class “A” aircraft – more often than we care to admit.
“Perhaps worse, they said that the microlight had taken off from Chiltern Park airfield – did they really need to use a ‘real’ airfield in the fictitious rubbish? What effect will this have on the airfield now?”
I did not know there was a Chiltern Park airfield and I suspect the programme makers didn’t either, certainly no one not involved in aviation or Chiltern Park itself would know. Effect on the airfield will be zilch, probably forgotten by now.
” ‘we all know how gullible the general public can be if they are fed information from a ‘reputable source’ such as the TV.
Spooks is a fictional drama, not a reputable(?) News broadcast and does not “feed information”
“Put yourself in the place of a complainer at Chiltern Park, you now have added ammo to close down the airfield “Not only is it noisy, but it has the potential to mount a terrorist attack!”
Sorry Avid, but the fact is you don’t need a named airfield to launch a terroist attack from using a light aircraft so should all aircraft/flying machines including hang gliders and powered parachutes be banned? Are we becoming as paranoid as the Americans in the programme?
On the subject of the Firefly accident: Read the thread on the FlyPast forum and see how it unravels.
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