Airport charging for permission to fly in FRZ? Allowed or?

Picked on a thread on FB that an airport is charging £20+vat for permission to fly in it’s FRZ.

My understanding from CAP 722c (3.1 and 3.2) is that they can’t charge for this?

Anyone encountered similar or have any thoughts.

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What’s the charge actually for?

Some land owners charge people to fly from their land (various threads on here about it) which is perfectly legal. It’s their land after all :slight_smile:

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Flying within the FRZ not absolutely clear but the implementation is it’s not from their land just within the FRZ.

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Admin fee maybe? :thinking:

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Anything on their web site that might shed more light?

Website isn’t particularly the top of professionalism also lacks a proof read:

Also CAP722c 3.2 prevents them charging an admin fee.

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3.1:

3.2:

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Further on this, no form on that page I can see which makes them 3 for 3 (4 for 4 if you include the Gatwick dig)

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:man_facepalming:t2:

I can’t see any reference to charging though, how did that £20+VAT fee come about?

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Was a reply to an email sent to the person who made the post.

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I can land a 5.5MT helicopter there for £20 apparently :slight_smile:

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So is a FRZ a UAS Geographical Zone under the legislation?

BCAL-SUA-Drone-Notification-Process-Jul-20.pdf (212.0 KB)

In black & white

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What’s the Minimum Age section (4.2.1) got to do with charging £20?

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I picked up on that too, I believe he means CAP722c but he clearly is a bit crap.

Can’t see anything about charging in there either!

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Seems a lot of fuss and messing around for a 20 min drone flight :confused:

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So the £20 charge is an “application fee”?

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Yup but I am pretty sure that they can’t charge an application fee.