Farnborough on Sunday
OK, so does anyone know what was going on at Farnborough on Sunday afternoon?
They had a 10nm radius temporary class A CTR up to 5,000 ft for an hour. But, having grabbed 200 cubic miles of airspace, they didn't even have anyone on their LARS frequency to offer transits or even remind people of the existance of the zone. I'd bet a fair amount that they had infringements.
The lack of LARS wasn't NOTAMed -- can they just remove their service during notified hours of operation without notice? I even phoned them before departure to ask the likelyhood of a transit and got a perfectly reasonable "we will if we can; call us on 125.25" answer.
Does anyone know what was going on? I presume it was Her Majesty or one of her friends -- fair enough but 10 nm radius up to 5,000 and no ATC service at all?
Farnborough would normally win any 'LARS provider of the year' award in my book but I wasn't impressed yesterday!
Mark