coventry
ILS nope and yes, it been calibrated about 5 times the last few months, but
still problems with it.
Chaos caused by what was always thought would be the problem, Britannia
aircraft have always been one of the operators that have never liked to be routed
outside controlled airspace, they don't do the Birmingham-Brecon procedure
and even when normally positioning to other airports not connected as well to
the airways system, they always route the airways way (i.e places like
Bristol etc) this goes for not just the flights operating out of brum but
all other airfields.
So there has been new procedures and pressure to keep these aircraft in
controlled airspace as much as possible, rather than the usual get em down
quick and straight into cov, they now route past hon and sequenced from
there. Some days this will not pose as much as a problem depending upon
runways in use at egbb and egbe. But other days will cause absolute chaos,
Cov have no secondary radar so are unable to see height read outs of any
aircraft, so they're unable to be given traffic that maybe higher than brums,
until it is clean laterally as they cant see if they can step it down on
top, hence the rather excessive routing it received the other day, and as
someone pointed out weaving around warks and west midlands in and out of
brum traffic was precisely what it did!!! Before still having to leave
controlled airspace east of cov to be vectored for runway 23...with loads of
unknowns buzzing around that bit of airspace and from my experience some of
the GA routing along there (many route dty sapco lic or similar routing) are
working either cov, east midlands or brum, or none. So cov have no way of
knowing what that traffic is doing...and TCAS doesn't see non-squawking
traffic!! Its an accident waiting to happen, and putting a lot of pressure
on Controllers to risk there licence's by trying to provide a Radar service
outside of controlled airspace.
I wouldn't fly on one of these planes even if it was free!
James