I'm surprised it isn't John Prescott International these days, WorkingHard!
Or, perhaps more appropriately, Bransholme International given that its chief reason for being is to ferry the low life from that Hull-hole to wherever the alcohol is cheap.
Surely its days as an international airport are numbered with RobinDoncasterFinningleyHood spaceport now open?
Anyway, back to the plot. I don't accept that RAS is 'mandatory' in IMC. Given the SA provided by RIS and the relative freedom to make your own decisions based on that is sometimes eaier than being given avoidance turns on every track within 5nm which hasn't been positively identified - even if that traffic is tracking away from you.
At present, quality airline recruiters consider that around 50% of unemployed fATPL holders are virtually unemployable. They simply are NOT the sort of people they want sharing their flight decks. When the ICAO MPL comes along, you can expect to share your beloved Class A airspace with some very inexperienced pilots with 70 hours flight time in real aeroplanes. Hopefully the JAA version of the MPL - or more probably the EASA version - will require initial selection and considerable airline involvement, but there's no guarantee of that.
Last edited by BEagle; 6th June 2006 at 06:36.