Ivel Model Aircraft Club
Model Aircraft Flying near Bedford UK
Our members are mainly from Bedfordshire and West Cambridgeshire
Model Aircraft Flying near Bedford UK
Our members are mainly from Bedfordshire and West Cambridgeshire
CAA Registration: (Updated 1 May 22)
CAA Registration: (Updated 1 May 22)
CAA ID Registration Fees increase from 1 Apr 22.
The CAA have recently published their Scheme of Charges for the 2022/23 financial year, which states that the fee to register with them as an 'Operator' of an unmanned aircraft will be increasing to £10 per year (from the current £9). This increase will apply to everyone who is either registering as an Operator or renewing their current registration from the 1st April 2022.
CAA RULE CHANGES
1 JAN 21 amended 17 May 21 and 21 Dec 21
All BMFA members should have had an email regarding changes to Article 16 requirementsthat came into
effect 21 Dec 21. Essentially nothing much has changed to effect our flying. Follow the links applicable to our flying. A copy of the details in the email can be found here:
https://bmfa.org/News/News-Page/ArticleID/2761/BMFA-issued-with-an-updated-Article-16-Authorisation-21-12-2021
Restrictions announced 20 February 2019
For all Drone/UAS (affecting all our model types) flying at or near listed airfields operating full size aircraft.
These regulations came into effect wef: 13 March 2019
Airfield (full size) restrictions:
On 13 March 2019 the drone flight restriction zone (FRZ) around airports and airfields changes.
The government has introduced a new rule stating that the 1km restriction from the airfield boundary is replaced by a restriction using the airfield’s existing aerodrome traffic zone, which has a radius of either, 2, or 2.5 nautical miles and then, five kilometres by one kilometre zones starting from the point known as the ‘threshold’ at the end of each of the airfield’s runways. Both zones extend upwards to a height of 2,000 feet above the airfield.
It is illegal to fly any drone at any time within these restricted zones unless you have permission from air traffic control at the airport or, if air traffic control is not operational, from the airport itself.
A link to a map showing each UK airfield’s FRZ restriction is available at:
https://nats-uk.ead-it.com/cms-nats/opencms/en/uas-restriction-zones/
NOTAM information can be found at:
notaminfo.com/ukmap
scroll down to the map which you can then scroll/move around the map, and zoom in and out,
and it is clickable on zones for additional information.
We are having issues with maintaining concurrent dates for our NOTAM.
Currently, Macca is posted but Wilden has not been acknowledged.
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