ATCOJ30
About time you went public, letter to the MP first, then some targetted media feeds. You are not creating a precedent by wanting regulated airspace protection for your 60,000 ATMs a year.....the airspace existed in the past....remember Chepstow etc.
Yes, we are very aware of your problems, and yes, we bend over backwards to help as long as it doesn't adversely affect overall sector safety.
As for the long long long promised improvements.....always jam tomorrow......never any urgency apparently; and now Exeter is getting very busy....with even less protection than your postage stamp size Zone.
One of the knock-on features of the lack of regulated airspace is the requirement of 250knots below FL100, which we cannot over-ride [ military exempt ].......it makes climb-out traffic that much harder to integrate into the "big flow".
Regards to you all.