Originally Posted by
alfred_the_great
The problem is what risk you are talking about - the risk to the aircraft or the risk to closing the only strategic airhead into a Crown Dependency which has been invaded within living memory.
The Station Commander MPA doesn’t exist to make a commercial pilot’s life easier, he exists to enable the rapid reinforcement of teh Falklands when necessary. And on that basis, this seems an entirely reasonable risk decision.
Err, the Crown Dependancies are Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Conversely, the Falklands are a British Overseas Territory. The difference is the former has it's own laws where the latter complies with British law.
The stuff implying "Don't use the runway because we may have to use it" reminds me of the storemen of old.