Channel Isles PPR picked up by BBC News

[Mike Cross]

BBC News - Jersey air traffic system 'is unfit for purpose' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-13930547)

Full text of Charles' Press Release is available here. (http://www.aopa.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=487&catid=1&Itemid=247)

Feel free to point any of your journalist friends at it. Nice to see the BBC picking it up.

[Charlie Fox]

Q) lfrr/qacxx/v/nbo/ae/000/195/4942n00213w040
b) from: 11/06/30 07:00c) to: 11/09/29 18:00
e) zone ppr required for all svfr flights entering channel islands
control zone with a dest alderney. Pilots must obtain zone entry
slot from either Channel Island Control Zone - SVFR Flight Planning Guide (http://www.cicz.co.uk) or the jersey ppr help desk.
0044(0)1534 446309. Inter-island flights are exempt.

[macuser]

Wasn't there an announcement that ATC Jersey was going to dispense with ATCAs because the new electronic system would make them redundant? Maybe the new system isn't helping the ATCOs as much as had been hoped.