RipAndTear wrote:DA inactive, cross it. DA active, get a DACS to clear you, if not possible, fly around -
R&T
I think that that's basically it, in a nutshell. Well put. And maybe I was being a pussy yesterday but, with the current orgasmic excitement shown by some about airspace infringements (including infringements of DAs, note), I felt that it was sufficiently opaque to warrant caution and further investigation.
And the fact remains (and this was the thought uppermost in my mind as I turned away) was that the DA was Notam's as active and so it was undeniably
still there (albeit inactive at that time), a crossing service was explicitly
not available, and I wasn't 100% in my mind that some of the dafter purveyors of logic within the CAA might not take the view that entering it in such circumstances represented an infringement. Given my history on the subject of infringements I really don't want to end up as one of the offenders
Also, having been on the other side of the fence, so as to speak, and witnessed one particular episode of a light aircraft happily blatting across a DA while 81mm mortar rounds were both going up and coming down the implications of being hit by such a projectile are, whilst remote, nonetheless arresting.