250kts on departure
Just a quick straw poll, as the London TMA controllers are more than likely going to have to trial operations in March whereby we cannot take the 250kt speed restriction off you guys until you are above FL100.
This trial is supposedly going to stop aircraft 'bunching' at exit points (though how that will work when talking about 4 different major airports launching A/C independantly to the same exit points is a mystery to the coalface ATCOs)
The question I have is - our management, who are forcing this trial on us, inform us that the airlines have been informed....... to what extent do you guys know about this - or is it the case of both sets of management have agreed to the trial but not told the coalface workers??
What are your thoughts on this restriction?