Originally Posted by
NorthSouth
There's now only one military airfield that provides an H24 LARS service, and the reason why remains a mystery. It has four based aircraft - Tutors, that never fly beyond the airfield's opening hours of 9 to 5; the airfield for which they are the diversionary airfield is only open weekdays 0800-1800 plus as required for QRA; and 90% of the LARS traffic is light civil aircraft on a Basic Service.
Why they can't have one person on standby to go in and provide a radar service in the event of Lossiemouth going below minima while a QRA flight is out beats me. And we're all paying for this bizarre pantomime of full ATC teams sitting around all night drinking tea waiting for an event that may never happen.
There are more aircraft based there, than you seem to know about.