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Old 30th Jun 2019, 05:51
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The Many Tentacles
 
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Certainly at London, there's a "file it, fly it" directive that's come from somewhere above us. Essentially, there's a lot of traffic routing around slot delays and then asking for more direct routes once they get airborne, either just across our FIR or to go direct through Brest when they've filed oceanic down the Tango routes for example. It also says we have to leave you at your flight planned level as well to avoid overloading sectors down route that we may not know about. So if you file FL310 in our airspace, that's all we're supposed to give you until you leave the London FIR. The example we were given was that last summer we climbed two aircraft above their filed level and then further down the line a sector at Marseille was overloaded with two extra aircraft being the tipping point.

The mockery of this comes when we have three aircraft all planned at FL370 through the same point within a couple of minutes of each other, at least one of them will end up at FL350 instead and going South through BHD that will put you into a different Brest sector that you weren't flight planned into which is what we're supposed to be avoiding Also, we cap you at a certain level for 200 miles and then watch you climb the moment we hand you over to the French as well.

The exception to this is traffic going to places that have an agreed level out of UK airspace to nearby destinations like Paris/Brussels/Amsterdam etc so you can request what you want in those cases and we'll try and accommodate you
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