Approaches unavailable due controller away...
I rang up today to book a practice SRA for Thursday at a medium-sized airfield in the Midlands... and was asked to ring back on Wednesday as they didn't yet know whether they would have a controller capable of doing SRA's on that day. No complaint there - I'll ring and if they can fit me in I'll be grateful.
But.. it did start me thinking. I've always assumed that in the event of failure of ADF/VOR in the plane I can do a SRA. I know that the military will probably be there to rescue me but it had never occurred to me before that SRA's might not always be available when I wanted them. Obviously other types of approach are sometimes u/s but that is fairly rare e.g. equipment failure.
How common is this problem? Is it confined to one or two airfields or am I likely to find that it is the case elsewhere too?
Tim