"ShawnD2112" wrote in message It also depends on the clearances. As long as he was laterally 500 feet
away from the building/chimney, and not over any other manmade objects, then
he was OK. As I understand it, if you could find a path across the country
with no people or buildings in it, you can fly as low as you want as long as
you're more than 500 feet away from everything. Not that I've actually
tried it, and it's an extreme interpretation open to argument, but you get
the idea.


the lowest I have flown legally nowhere near an airfield twas nearly 200
feet *below* sea level (in a C310) twas not in UK though, but along
Death Valley in Nevada :-) -- the most fun I had with my clothes on in
quite a while... :-)

--Sylvain