Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:03 pm
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That is some article! Well done.
seek to ensure that the amount of controlled airspace is the minimum required to maintain a high standard of air safety
GonzoEGLL wrote:Plus of course any CTRs are the responsibility of the airport in terms of airspace change, not the ANSP.
Dave W wrote:GonzoEGLL wrote:Plus of course any CTRs are the responsibility of the airport in terms of airspace change, not the ANSP.
Up to a point, Lord Copper.
The applicant applies, the Regulator decides. Holistic and efficient deployment of airspace is not the responsibility of individual applicants; how could it be?
Part of the difficulty recently around the Cotswolds appears to have been due to separate applications from Brize and Oxford. One can possibly see why each considers their own patch and applies accordingly. It is the Regulator who should be in a position to tell applicants to play together before applications enter the public domain; that doesn't seem to happen as one might wish.
Lord Copper, the newspaper magnate, has been said to be an amalgam of Lord Northcliffe and Lord Beaverbrook: a character so fearsome that his obsequious foreign editor, Mr Salter, can never openly disagree with him, answering "Definitely, Lord Copper" and "Up to a point, Lord Copper" in place of "yes" or "no".
IMCR wrote:G-BLEW - that is a damn fine article that goes right to the heart of the matter.
I have to say though I am in totally despair.
What I find so troubling is with such a good article (and various discussions recently on other nonesensical posturing by the CAA) we, as a body of pilots, would far rather argue and debate the detail, justify some of the CAA's actions and generally argue amoung ourselves, but cant find it within us, to present a united face.
G-BLEW wrote:Anyway, I hope to get a reply soon, but right now I need to start working on my next column which revolves around ATZs!
Ian
PaulB wrote:Why is airspace granted? Is it there to protect people who live in large houses from have pesky light aircraft overhead?
James Chan wrote:..
We need to share airspace with everyone else better, and not just to look for every corner we could ever possibly cut.