Originally Posted by
b1obthebuilder
120 movements on a weekday (Monday to Friday)? I don't think so. I have worked on the airfield perimeter for the last 3 years. Maybe 3 take-offs per hour, so cannot be many more landings due to parking limitations. Maybe these movements are outside normal working hours!
Depends what times you are at work. Busiest periods when I worked in ATC there were 7 am - 8.30 am and 5 pm - 8pm with constant 'steady' traffic in between.
In the 'in between' period I often sit in the tower at Fairoaks nowadays watching a continuous stream of Fanborough arrivals; Farnborough inform us of all inbound traffic on runway 24 and we limit the altitude of our departures to avoid conflicting with the Farnborough traffic.
I would often arrive at Farnborough at 6.45 am and aircraft would be sitting there with APUs running ready to get away asap after we opened and there would be inbounds holding close by when the radar came on line.