Stourton
Note: This map only shows the position of Stourton village within the UK. A good look at Google Earth, (image 2016), appears to show no obvious signs of this airstrip. If anybody can kindly provide a more exact location, this advice will be most welcome.
STOURTON: Microlight strip
Location: Stourton is on the junction of the A449 and A458 roughly 3nm SW of Brierley Hill
Runway: 09/27 320x10 grass
NOTES: Initial info source, AAIB report EW/G2009/05/25.
Another AAIB report, EW/C2013/10/01, concerning the fatal crash of the Pegasus XL-R, G-MVKM, makes for interesting reading. It appears the pilot did not have a pilots license, and had not completed his flying training, and, had a medical condition which would probably have prevented him from passing a medical examination. Also, the CAA aircraft register showed G-MVKM as being permanently withdrawn from use and de-registered in November 2012.
However, perhaps incredibly, the pilot had kept a log book which showed he hadn’t completed his training – the last recorded instructional flight being in August 2007. Since then he had made 82 flights in microlights he was recorded as owning. I’m sure this must be a very rare set of circumstances, but, is it?
Having flown an aircraft around the UK and to several countries in Europe, and, flown aircraft in every country in western Europe and beyond, I am pretty certain I was only rarely asked to produce my pilots license and medical. Seeing that they were all group or flight school aircraft, anybody in the know will realise that in 99% of cases the situation would have been covered simply because I was invariably flying with an instructor or approved safety pilot.
But, who is checking those that fly and own an aircraft?
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