.Happy flying and if you do get aloft it would be good to see you in the Thame area.

Actually, was over Thame yesterday eve, at whatever the legal minimum is , plus 10 %.

Just off to the east, I could see the seething cauldron of hazard and menace, through which no man dare fly ( without a transponder and PhD in B*ll*cks )

As an aside, I tried to watch a bit of the BBC news tonight, but they are simply consumed, obsessed, with Olympic fervour, and can barely talk of anything else.

And it hasn’t even begun yet. Enough already.

Maybe they could try for a gold medal in STFU..

The boundary of the restrictive zone seems pretty arbitrary, drawing straight lines between bits of existing airspace , with little consideration seemingly for the airfields that are just ‘caught’ but which with a little wiggle, could be freed up, with no meaningful loss of security.

Places such as Duxford, Booker, Headcorn and Blackbushe could all have been left out, and numerous others such as White Waltham, Henlow and Fowlmere given an exit corridor, straight in and straight out, to at least allow some level of recreational flying.

The various forums seem to indicate that Atlas is a very moody and ( at present ) confused agency with which to deal, and the overly complex system is not really functioning as intended.

Conspiracy theorists will say that it was INTENDED to drive down traffic to negligable levels, and discourage GA utillisation , and by that measure it is working like a charm.