Originally Posted by
HershamBoys
Flying operations could co-exist, albeit in the case of civil airports the military RTF phraseology and circuit SOPs are very different to their civilian equivalents, and it is likely that civil ATC would have had little exposure to, knowledge of, or training in military procedures. I'm not sure how the commercials would react to having their arrivals and departures impacted by the military doing their run and breaks.
In the case of Belfast, because the civil and military infrastructures are on different sides of the airfield, they can be adequately segregated.
In the case of phraseology, this was all 'harmonised' by mutual agreement some years ago (about 2010 I think) and all controllers were briefed on 'differences'.