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Post by sigurdur on Aug 18, 2014 19:06:32 GMT
Buy stock in aluminum.
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Post by Andrew on Aug 18, 2014 19:11:46 GMT
There is no such place as Europe when it comes to ATC requirements, and no such thing as one single controlled airspace type. Prearranged flight plans just give you a far better chance of entering controlled airspace, where clearance is not automatic upon request. Yes for sure big brother wants to watch you but it depends upon where you are, what type of controlled airspace you are in, what your aircraft is fitted with, what is working, the mood of the controller and so forth. If you want to be pedantic Andrew (as if) - the region is the countries within the European Civil Aviation Conference ECAC that mainly but not all are contributers to the pan national body called EUROCONTROL plus a few hangers on. EUROCONTROL is an advisory body so all its recommendations are put into law by either the transport ministers of the ECAC states or by the European Commission (or both). I can assure you - from long experience - that the cooperation between states in air traffic management is more than you would suspect. If you do not flight plan then you will not be allowed into controlled airspace with the possible exception being military aircraft following "operational air traffic" rules but then they have been cleared into the airspace by military control authorities. The ECAC states all subscribe to something called the Originating Region Code Allocation Method (ORCAM) where once an identity code is allocated to an aircraft it will retain it as far as possible for its entire flight within the ECAC airspace. The entire airspace is now split into cooperating Functional Airspace Blocks that comprise several countries, with harmonized rules, routes and procedures. It is not the patchwork quilt you seem to think it is. You are muddling things up. This conversation is not about flight planning to get clearance but rather instrument requirements needed to get clearance so that we can determine if your much earlier claim about transmissions from aircraft in controlled airspace is correct. You just claimed VFR in controlled airspace was verboten in Europe.
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Post by Ratty on Aug 18, 2014 22:30:30 GMT
Ingots or paper?
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 18, 2014 23:34:05 GMT
Ingots or paper? Well, tin foil hat season usually goes in cycles. So potentially paper. Altho, the new CO2 regulations being proposed would make an ingot valuable. Hard call to make. The above comes with a disclaimer. I am not part of the tin foil hat crowd, so the metrics of growth may be over stated. And the advice is only worth what you pay for it.
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