Drone Rules for Membury Westbound Services RAF Memorial
Airspace Advisory (Membury): Unlicensed training aerodrome with active low-altitude flight operations and student circuits from the surface upward. Enhanced pilot vigilance required.
⟐⟐ AVIATION TRAINING FIELD ADVISORY // MEMBURY SECTOR ⟐⟐
A localized lower-airspace safety advisory is active for this coordinate block due to its designation as a training aerodrome (Training AD). Remote drone pilots must evaluate localized traffic factors prior to launch.
⟐ SITE PROFILE -- Logged within civil aviation registers (UK AIP ENR 5.5) as an active training airfield supporting student pilots, instructional flights, and light general aviation movements. ⟐ HEIGHT CORRIDOR -- Operational traffic hazards exist continuously from the surface level upward, frequently intersecting standard unmanned aircraft cruising heights. ⟐ TRAFFIC EXPECTATION -- Heightened likelihood of encountering slow-moving training flights, touch-and-go landing practice, unpredictable flight paths, or low-altitude circuits by novice aviators. ⟐ OPERATOR DIRECTIVES -- Drone operators must maintain a flawless, unbroken visual line of sight (VLOS) with their aircraft. Actively track the local horizon for visual or auditory signs of approaching traffic, and yield absolute right-of-way immediately and unconditionally to all crewed flight vectors.
DATA INDEX: Maintained via the NATS UK Unlicensed & Uncertificated Aeronautical Sites database and UK AIP ENR 5.5.