Originally Posted by Mstream
Hi all ATCOs !
What kind of departure separation do you use at your airports ? Time (number of seconds between take-off clearances), distance (preceeding has to fly away x miles from the airports) or any other ?
Of course I am not asking about situations where wake turbulence is an issue but for example about sequence of medium category planes in a departure sequence.
We use the tried and tested 'CALENDER' seperation at our airport.1 on monday,1 tuesday etc.Cant get safer than that!!!