I don’t think that anyone can have too much of a beef about the exclusion zone around the immediate area of Central London and the Olympic Village. Most of it is after all, already controlled Class A airspace.
However the 300+ square mile proposed ‘resticted area’ stretching from Reading in the west to Southend in the east, from Old Warden and Duxford in the north to almost the south coast, is ridiculous.
It will almost certainly mean the closure of a number of businesses and loss of jobs, as flying schools and maintenance operations are going to suffer.
I gather that when questions were asked at the CAA ‘briefing’ this week, about this effect on airspace users such as vintage aircraft, gliders, balloons etc, that simply often cannot carry the equipment required, there were blank looks on the faces of civil servant. It clearly hadn’t been thought through!
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