Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:11 pm
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It’s been said before, but all the awkward little fillets and changes of level and the like are mostly there to keep the amount of airspace that is made controlled to a minimum. This at the request or insistence of the bodies that represent those who generally do not wish there to be, or want to use, controlled airspace.
Airspace can certainly be made simpler, although it will almost certainly be of a greater volume.
Nowadays airspace change is a far from simple process.
Airspace can certainly be made simpler, although it will almost certainly be of a greater volume.
Nowadays airspace change is a far from simple process.
EddieHeli wrote:It was no surprise to see that the places with most infringements are the ones with the airspace designed to make it tricky to navigate at low (average vfr) level.
Whilst I am not making excuses for poor airmanship, why not try and help the situation by redesigning the airspace that keeps getting infringed i.e. the ridiculous different height triangular fillets around Southampton from Popham to Bournemouth along the western edge of Southampton airspace for example, why is that triangle down to 1500ft?.
If there were consistent accidents at a road junction it would get redesigned. Why do we seem to be stuck in the situation where we have to put up with airspace that was probably designed on parchment with a quill pen , except of course when someone (i.e. Farnborough!!!) wants to grab some more of it, That seems to be the only time it gets re-designed.
Even then if you look at the planned Farnborough grab, they don't seem to have taken the opportunity to rethink and redesign as it is still full of fillets of different heights.
I think it needs work on both sides, I agree that pilots who don't bother planning properly need to be re-educated, but why make flying more difficult than it already is for those that do, with poorly designed airspace.