His helicopter costs £550/hour to fly, don't you know
The managing director of a Manchester-based infosec firm has been fined for flying his helicopter into an air traffic control zone without permission, having first launched a rant at air traffic controller.
Joel Tobias, a helicopter owner and pilot who was described by the Manchester Evening News as a “wealthy businessman”, was fined £1,600 plus £870 in legal costs after his on-frequency rant at air traffic controller Andrea Tolley.
Tobias, who owns his own Eurocopter EC-120 registered G-HVRZ, was flying his family between Lytham St Annes and Blackpool when he radioed Blackpool on 31 July last year for permission to enter its air traffic zone (ATZ).
Aviation law says pilots of aeroplanes entering ATZs need to radio air traffic control before doing s ..
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