Originally Posted by
TCAS FAN
I also remember a conversation with tha BRAL flight ops manager who indicated if a close in obstacle (tree in/adjacent to Marhill Copse) were reduced/removed a significant further improvement in take-off performance would result, increasing take-off weights by tonnes.
Now the birds have finished nesting anyone yet heard the sweet sound of chainsaws around Marhill Copse?
Went eastbound down M27 this morning, being restricted by roadworks to 50 mph was able to glance to right. One of the apparently offending trees (north of Marhill Copse) still stands, as Kenneth Williams said in Don’t Lose Your Heads “a digit-rampant!” towards the airport!