chevvron wrote:Skylaunch2 wrote:The BGA is fair with the activation of this airspace, and restricts to large competitions, which is probably why the ACN is specifically targeted towards Gliding Competitions. Different to the style the BGA have with Bristol Airspace for example.
So why can't the same be done with a section of the Farnborough airspace?
For 50-51 weeks a year Lasham is not hosting competitions so would find little use of a comparable agreement, as the Compton Box since 2016 is for competitions only. Lasham and surrounding airfields (with many thousands of movements) will need very frequent access to CAS, especially with easterly operations at Lasham that look very challenging with proximity of CAS. Any LoAs are damage limitation at best, talk of the majority of gliders being non radio is nonsense.
We are still talking about a GA airfield claiming huge areas of airspace here. This is a serious precedent that cannot go unchallenged. The safety risks have been talked about for years now and haven't changed, we saw only in the last year 4 people killed at a known choke point near High Wycombe, do we really want that over Four Marks or Basingstoke?
What is so wrong about a Judicial Review in your eyes, do you not believe the regulator should be accountable as any other body? Top marks to LGS standing their ground, at last there'll finally be a completely independent eye on the whole process to make a decision once and for all! Hurrah!