Thinking about buying a Mooney

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David Megginson wrote:
If I recall correctly, isn't there also a restriction in the UK that you
need prior permission to land at any field (vs. Canada or the U.S., where
prior permission is required mainly at military or private fields)?

No. However, most airfields are private and you'll need PPR at those,
it's just a matter of making a phone call before you depart. (Some
airports are PPR only some of the time, and 'just turn up' the rest -
the ones that are sometimes PPR usually have some sort of activity like
skydiving or gliding going on).

The AIP (the equivalent of the A/FD + approach plates) is avaiable
online at http://www.ais.org.uk and has information for any airfield
with an ICAO airport identifier in Britain. You have to register, but
it's free and the information is in PDF form (I usually print out the
pages for an airfield I'm going to). This has the phone number of the
airfield too, but unfortunately it doesn't tell you whether it's PPR or
not. (It's best to just assume it is since many of them are and call
them anyway).

Some airfields (typically the larger ones) want you to wear 'high
visibility' (orange vests) if you are out walking on the ramp. Funnily
enough, although the risk of getting sued is an order of magnitude more
likely in the States (and the settlement costs several orders of
magnitude higher) people in Britain seem to be far more paranoid about
lawsuits than people in the US.

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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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Some airfields (typically the larger ones) want you to wear 'high
visibility' (orange vests) if you are out walking on the ramp. Funnily
enough, although the risk of getting sued is an order of magnitude more
likely in the States (and the settlement costs several orders of
magnitude higher) people in Britain seem to be far more paranoid about
lawsuits than people in the US.

Nah, it's not about getting sued. It's the result of some over zealous
health and safety poeple getting involved to justify their jobs.

They just do it because it's something they think should be done.
Then of course you have to stick to the rules, or you're labelled
as reckless or so on, or someone shouts. These people don't use
common sense, they use "the rules".

I was in the pub with a group of pilots on Thursday. One of the
guys said that he was at the RAF Museum at Cosford. He
moved a road cone slightly to take a photograph. The cone
wasn't marking anything like a hole or anything to be wary of,
and actually looked to have just been left there to get it out
of the way. Queue "jobsworth" guy..."You can't move the
cones" "Why?" Rules for the sake of rules.

Paul