According to a report by Lord Carlile smaller ariports and farm strips pose a potential threat to national security by providing an easy point of entry for terrorists wishing to transport material into the UK. Apparently Lord Carlile was told that the ‘lack of information was the soft underbelly of port policing’. In his report he writes ‘I have been told that the expansion and development of the filing of informative flight plans would improve the situation’
The fact that aeroplanes can land in any suitable field, that helicopters can land in any suitable clearing and that boats have more than enough coastline to choose from seems to have been left out of the report.
