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Old 2nd Jan 2018, 21:44
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Good Business Sense
 
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I can think of a particular watch supervisor at a particular airport who must be rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of using this one against GA
Let's face it about 30% of the ATC units in the UK are hostile towards GA - doesn't matter if they have one or ten inbounds/outbounds .... or as I found recently at one major international airport, none. Yep, very early morning, nothing in the air (truly nothing at that time and only one departure in the next 20 minutes) and I got the usual, "remain clear of controlled airspace" and then given more track miles than if I had planned to avoid their airspace completely.

Of course, there are many great units but it's embarrassing when compared to the USA and Canada. Over the last few years I've found the professionalism deteriorating rapidly. It certainly has changed.

Finally, as 3 out of 4 of my VFR flight plans never make it to a controllers desk I don't expect this to work.
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