Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:36 am
#1837175
PeteSpencer wrote:TopCat wrote:PeteSpencer wrote:Shirley the point is that if you’re flying anywhere with on/off controlled airspace the onus is on you to check the notams for precise times: I imagine most people would do this and I guess as per OP @TopCat would find himself pretty much in a minority.
Could you clarify the sense in which I'm in a minority here? You say that most people would check the precise times, and indeed I did.
So I'm not sure what you mean.
Simply that if you are in an airspace which has notified hours of activity that becomes active while you’re in it as you describe in the OP, the majority of folk would have seen the notams and wouldn’t be there in the first place .
Hence you would be in a minority
Ah, I see. Yes, you're right. What I actually did was what, as you say, the majority would probably do, but if I'd done something different then I'd have been in a minority.
Yes, I agree. But I don't think it's right that we're effectively forced to 'play it safe' like that by what is a lack of clarity and reasonable process at best.
As @xtophe points out, to be on the safe side, we have to treat uncontrolled airspace as prohibited airspace for the 10-15 mins before it becomes active.
Would it be so hard to standardise and codify the 'Norwich solution' as @akg1486 has described as his experience outside the UK?