AyrTC,
Why would doing Inverness from Aberdeen be too expensive?
We already do more than Sumburgh from there,including Anglia and Brent which all use radar feeds from East Anglia,and Norway's sector.Taking another radar feed would be no problem.
We have approach radar controllers,but whether enough to do EGPE is debatable at the moment.It's also going to be a green field validation,so a lot of simulation would be needed before SRG would accept it.
As for your comment about ScACC being happy about any new service providers understanding Radar Vectoring etc :what a lot of cobblers.What do you think Approach Radar Controllers do all day? Yeah get a/c a damn sight closer together than any Area sector.Vector jets 3 miles behind helicopters on the ILS.Also, in our case setup a lot of headings for Tay/Moray to lessen their workload.
Perhaps we show you whats it's like to get the outbounds all on their own navigation,and watch ScACC sort it out
