Originally Posted by
TeeS
I don't really understand why the UK don't have published departures at places like Gloucester and Cambridge as PANS-OPS volume 2 states:
Chapter 2
GENERAL CONCEPTS FOR DEPARTURE PROCEDURES
2.1 ESTABLISHMENT OF A DEPARTURE PROCEDURE
2.1.1 For each runway at aerodromes where instrument departures are expected to be used, a departure procedure
shall be established and promulgated.
....and they seem to have plenty of IFR departures.
Cheers
TeeS
Thanks TeeS, I suspect one of the reasons they don’t have a SID is that a SID has to remain wholly within controlled airspace. Easier done in the continent where they use Class D/E airspace extensively, but I would have thought that in place of a SID the simple solution for most IFR aerodromes in the UK would be to publish the omnidirectional departure information for each of their instrument runways?