Hi! All UK Flyers....
Further to what I thought was a helpful leaflet with regards to keeping
legal with HMRC, Immigration/Border Agency, and Police Anti-Terrorism
Authorities as you may well expect nothing can be so simple when it
transgresses Multiple Bureaucratic Departments!
I must now refer you to the General Aviation Report "Completion and
Submission Instructions" where you will find that there are further
obligations to conform to.
It now transpires that there is a list of Designated Airfields and COA
Airfields which have Certificates of Agreements or "Concessions" These 92
CoA airfields require you to include them in for a copy of your GA Report
Fax. (See GAR Instructions May 09 vl.1a page 3)
Similarly on GAR Instructions May 09vl.1a page 2 is listed the details of
Anti-Terrorism Police Forces who also need prior notification!
All these documents are readily available on the HMRC web site at
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk
So the original leaflet over simplifies the requirements as evidenced by the
fact that when 20 miles out from Texel last Saturday I was advised that
Elstree wouldn't accept my flight plan inbound to them ! In spite of the
fact that I submitted the GA Report Form a minimum of 24 hours ahead!
Since I had put North Weald as my alternative I dropped in there (also a COA
field) illegally then immediately departed to Elstree where I was accepted
as a local domestic flight!
So in summary :- Either fly into recognized Customs and Immigration airports
and pay the necessary additional landing fees OR "roll your own" and carry a
suitcase full of damn paper with you for reference and Fax numbers.
Since I abhor bureaucracy I will in future be showering them with faxes and
saving otherwise unnecessary, time inconvenient and landing costs.
So likewise there probably also exists a similar (jobs for the boys) system
in the EU when flying outbound to them!
Best regards
Bob Harrison G-PTAG
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