Do you care about LARS?

[Chilli Monster]

NikNak

Nice idea - but doesn't go far enough.

What we really need is a complete restructuring of UK airspace and ATC. Someone needs the cajones to start it from scratch.

With an Island the size of ours I think the time has come to take the radars out of the airfields (Mil and civil) and have it centrally controlled - maybe 3 centres instead of 2 but that would cover the whole of the UK.

With that in place you resector the country - surface to FL100. FL100 - FL245 (or whatever the boundary between FIR/UIR is deemed to be), and base of UIR upwards. The lateral limits depend on known traffic density (South Wales lower would be bigger than South East lower for example)

Make it Class 'E' up to FL100, except around major internationals where you'd have Class 'A' where deemed necessary - maybe even use Class 'C' airspace around the busier regionals (most of them operate as if it were anyway).

Let's face it - UK airspace, airways structure, and service provision, is a complete bloody mess with a hotchpotch of units outside CAS providing piecemeal services on an ad hoc basis. It needs radical action and it needs it now.

If the airport's want to provide their own tower controllers then fine - no problems. But it's time that all en-rte and approach radar provision was done by one provider, operating for the benefit of all, with no self interest involved. That's got to be more efficient for all users in the long run.