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Old 18th Sep 2005, 14:59
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rustle
 
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Final 3 Greens someone could write a much more scary story about commercial traffic encountering fast-jet [military] traffic, other commercial traffic or GA in uncontrolled airspace in the north-east if they wanted to...

Infact they did - you can find quite a few examples in the Airprox bulletins.

I didn't see many (2) glider -v- commercial ops reports in there though

See HERE

This is from that report (I hope they don't mind me posting it)

The grid at Figure 4 shows which groups conflicted and how often.

The yellow column shows the pilot group (or their air traffic controllers) that filed Airprox while those in the green row represent the other party.

Positioning in either grouping does not imply being ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ – it is just how they met.

For example, ‘GA Helicopter’ pilots met ‘GA Private or Club’ pilots on five occasions, the latter group meeting each other 20 times.

The largest change on results from 2003 was experienced by pilots of scheduled passenger airliners who filed on 10 more occasions.

Whilst this is an increase over the preceding year, the 2004 total of 64 is 12 less than the 2002 figure, illustrating the variability of such data.


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