Bookworm, actually vintage atco is correct. The CAA has got its self into a it of a muddle and have amended the ammedment to the the ammendment and my understanding is if the ceiling is below 1500ft you cant issue a vfr clearance to an aircraft taking off and landing in an airport in class D.
So this has been ammended again and the rest of the sentance put back in.
The corrigiendum reads:
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There is an error in Amendment 59 to CAP 493 Manual of Air Traffic Services (MATS) Part 1, Section 3, Chapter 1, page 5, paragraph 8.5. The last sentence should be corrected to finish with a full stop after “exceeds 5000 m” and the remaining words deleted.
“No further VFR clearances are to be issued to any inbound or outbound traffic, in these circumstances, until such time as the reported meteorological visibility at the aerodrome reaches or exceeds 5000m. [and the cloud ceiling is 1500 feet or above].”
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