PPRuNe Radar, M609.......Good Call!
Ferris....you should run for parliment with those sorts of explanations.
8 Years of dealing with the US "Due Regard" concept and they have developed into some of the most untidy moments of my Middle East experience!! Only one government on this planet have the ordacity to put out a notam to the world telling them that basically they will do what they want, where they want and when they want with no regard to the general public!!!
They give our civil traffic a good tickle up on a regular basis (especially during the Afghan campaign when they set up the tactical entry point right in the middle of some of the worlds busiest civil airways and used non-conformal levels to boot!!!). But its ok, before we had RVSM they would disect the airways at 90 degrees and throw in 500' for mum and the kids, cause that should give everybody the warm and fuzzies!!
Gobsmacked!
