Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:34 pm
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So PPR the previous day, or even 4 hours before, gives you all the information you need that would otherwise be given via ATIS? Such that ATC doesn't need to pass you any info on arrival? So there you are, 5 miles out, with the wrong QFE/QNH, positioning for the wrong runway, unaware that the runway is soaked and that viz is terrible to the north. And the CAA believe this?
This is has probably won the award for the most stupid regulatory decision ever made since the turn of the decade.
It is a hacked solution around what really needs to be fixed - the impact of Ofcom frequency charges on small to mid sized airfields.
The involved organisations are owned publically: The CAA, Ofcom and Gloucestershire City and Cheltenham Borough Council, and money is just being moved around them.
And there is a public interest for them to get it sorted.
Last edited by James Chan on Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
If we don't take part in protecting GA access to infrastructure, the smaller aerodromes will be built over, the larger aerodromes will have exorbitant handling fees and awkward procedures, and airspace will be over-classified to Class A everywhere.