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Old 1st May 2024, 11:19
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chevvron
 
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Originally Posted by MrAverage
Many, many operators from nearby airfields use(d) WCO to teach basic ADF skills, as well as simulating NDB approaches if chosen carefully. Thus saving students the cost of getting to approaches further afield, not to mention the frequent problem of being unable to book those approaches. If it's withdrawn it will be even harder to book elsewhere.................
Yes when we started operations on the 'North' sector of Farnborough LARS in 2008, it was immediately apparent how 'popular' WCO was with traffic out of Oxford, Denham and Wycombe, both with traffic seen on radar and many of them calling us up so we could supply generic information to people operating there.
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