Originally Posted by
chevvron
Yeah well the radar controllers only work mon - fri don't they (unless I've got out of date info) it's just weekends with no radar so they can't fly.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.
Hi Chevron I am sure you are right, training units provided with radar services by contract do not usually produce radar services at weekends. However I am not convinced that UAS/AEF flying is mandated to be under any sort of radar service, though following the Tutor/Tutor and Tutor/Cirrus glider mid air collisions of Feb and June 2009 one of the recommendations was that
a traffic service when available should be used. I am based in the Cranwell/Waddington area and is not unusual to see Grob 115's flying from Cranwell when Waddington and it's LARS are nomam'd as closed and Cranwell Radar not manned. Twas spookily quiet last weekend.