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Old 23rd Jan 2018, 12:01
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chevvron
 
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Originally Posted by taildragger123
A quick glance at flight Radar 24 in the last few minutes reveals G-BYUM and G-CGKK and BYXM all Grob 115E's registered being flown in the Wittering area. So not much wrong with the aircraft it would seem.
Funding Perhaps ???
Yeah well the radar controllers only work mon - fri don't they (unless I've got out of date info) it's just weekends with no radar so they can't fly.
I think I read somewhere that radar services are 'contracted out' and the twit who assigned the contract didn't think they'd be needed at weekends 'cos it cost too much.
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