Why are some of you seemingly incapable of providing less than 15 miles between aircraft vectored southbound at FL310 on UN866? 5 is plenty!!
Of course we could ask why Sector 4 insist on parallel headings fifteen miles apart on northbound traffic through MARGO, a real pain with the TMA inbounds being squeezed into a narrow bit of airspace. But that would be a bit tit for tat, wouldn't it
As for the Humber sector, I would like to offer in evidence the following:
Poxy little radar displays on large ranges - five miles seems awfuly close...
Until VERY recently, being unable to use less than ten miles separation until a few miles north of LARDI. (Due to the inadequacies of Claxby radar, now solved with the introduction of Cromer...) Getting them set up early was impossible.
The lack of usable space to the east makes a left turn tricky so turns to the right tend to be big ones.
Oh, and once I got two at FL 310 on parallel headings 5.5 miles apart. Perfect, until the bloody SMF went off just after I transferred them to Sector 10. Still don't know why...
Hopefully with Cromer now usable we will be able to go for about seven miles. Give us some decent displays and maybe we could go for five
