Ontheball
Well-Known Member
basically when you go abroad you have to "clear customs" in the country you are departing( normally a bloke looking idly at your documents/flight plan before walking to the nearest window to look at your aircraft before shruggin and signing your paperwork) then when you come back to the UK you have to land at a major(ish) airport to clear customs there, but that doesnt stop you dropping anything over the side in between, depending on what airport you land at you will either "clear customs" in the same manner as when you left whatever country it was or occasionally you will have a sniffer dog or customs officer come out an have a half arsed look around/inside the craft before walking off bored.
p.s. the only ppl that pull planes over in the air are the RAF(eurofighter typhoon or tornado) and like it or not if they want you to divert or land thats exactly what you will be doing, there was a bloke (in 200at an airfield near the one we fly from that decided to disobey them for a laugh thinking they wouldnt do anything because it a UK registered aircraft an coz of the human rights act etc, his plane is still sitting in the hanger at his airfield riddled with 30mm cannon holes from the "warning shot", he sustained shrapnel injuries over his whole upper body and died 8months later from "complications resulting from his injuries", whole story has been hushed up an is the subject of one of these "super-injunctions" that have featured in the papers quite recently
how much them things cost fuck the licence i wouldnt use an airport lol