The whole of Studland Bay off limits....

[Blue Sunray]

Hard to imagine anybody would wish to deny them that in order to protect their 'rights'. Which in any cases have historically depended on these same forces.

You have obviously lead a rather sheltered life (and not read a number of the past posts on these fora) then.

 

[dom]

You have obviously lead a rather sheltered life (and not read a number of the past posts on these fora) then.

I think the overwhelming majority of sailors treat these requests responsibly; a few may groan and others may legitimately question it. But they ultimately comply.

That said, I've seen a few 'rights' enforcing numnuts sailing through the likes of the Lulworth exclusion zone, but it's thankfully rare enough to justify a good look at those who do.

 

[FlyingGoose]

I think the overwhelming majority of sailors treat these requests responsibly; a few may groan and others may legitimately question it. But they ultimately comply.

That said, I've seen a few 'rights' enforcing numnuts sailing through the likes of the Lulworth exclusion zone, but it's thankfully rare enough to justify a good look at those who do.

Hee He Try Cape Wrath when Nato are going for it , dont trust other Nations not to mistake me for target practice

 

[dgadee]

Ronald Preedy in "Sail and Deliver" has a story about parachuting into Poole harbour where it went a bit awry.

 

[sailor211]

We were anchored in Studland last autumn for a couple of nights.

The Chinooks flew over-two of them-dropped the ribs and crews, flew to the nearby cliff meadows where they landed, engines running, marines deployed to guard said Chinooks. Shortly, the guards boarded, Chinooks took off again and picked up the ribs and crews. Very impressive! First mate has the pics to prove it. There were lots of other boats anchored in the Bay, I did have a twitchy moment when a Chinook loaded with Marines, large rib and crew-the rib hanging on a couple of ropes or wires-flew right overhead.

All done very quickly, without fuss, appeared to be the result of lots of practice.

Which, of course, is what they are paid to do.

We watched the same or similar event. Good entertainment, and even a night time show.

 

[grumpy_o_g]

...Finally, stepping out of an aeroplane at 155kts carrying your own bodyweight in equipment is an extraordinary experience, which should be encouraged at every opportunity.

I'm all for encouraging it...


Just not for actually doing it.

 

[BrendanS]

I think you will find the Paras prefer to keep their feet dry, more likely to be another bunch of gentleman dressed head to foot in black

Hmm. In hangliding days, we used to get a lot of attention if we put out a Notam, and then out of nowhere, we were being used as low level targets, by RAF, which was fine until we had Chinooks flying amok just above us, as the downdraft when flying off a ridge was potentially lethal.
Got our own back when men in black (ish), with custom black hang gliders, black sails, black powder coated ali tubes, wanted training from sites around Brecon Beacons. We kept pointing out that flying in low light conditions was not conducive to positive landings, as depth perception went out of the window. We trained in daylight, into dusk, then left them to it..! While we watched and gave advice.
It took them a few days, or evenings to be exact, to learn that no matter how hard they tried, and they did accept that the trainers were way more experienced at hang gliding skills, they could not land in near dark....

I'll probably have to delete this post