Sat May 18, 2019 3:22 pm
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I wonder whether the controllers worry about their job security if things roll along just fine without them.
CloudHound wrote:The Air Navigation Order gives the CAA power to direct an air traffic service be provided.
johnm wrote:The emerging solution is remote tower technology, from a control room controllers can provide traffic sequencing to a number of airports. If we lived in a well ordered world then for example Brize could provide ATC for Brize, Oxford, Gloucester, Kemble, Fairford and Benson using that arrangement.
chevvron wrote:johnm wrote:The emerging solution is remote tower technology, from a control room controllers can provide traffic sequencing to a number of airports. If we lived in a well ordered world then for example Brize could provide ATC for Brize, Oxford, Gloucester, Kemble, Fairford and Benson using that arrangement.
I think you'd find both Gloucester and Oxford would be far too busy for that and Kemble being AFIS the CAA are unlikely to approve a 'mix' of types of service, all this apart from the fact Brize is RAF anyway.
NDB_hold wrote:True but the USA has the advantage of blanket Class E - which is fine if you have blanket ATC cover - so you know if you are IMC, no one else will be in the same airspace at the same time.
and Kemble being AFIS the CAA are unlikely to approve a 'mix' of types of service, all this apart from the fact Brize is RAF anyway.