Just saw an advert of ATCO vacancy at Southend:
"The airport is situated in Class G airspace beneath the London TMA and handles a varied mixture of aircraft types from microlights to B757s. In 2005, Southend handled 53,000 airport movements and 14,000 overflights."
"...to work as a member of a small, flexible, enthusiastic team ensuring safety in a busy ATC environment."
"...as the airport is open H24."
Why is such airport situated in class G?? Sounds dangerous to me! How can the system work when anyone could fly over the airfield without a word in the radio?! In my country I'm used to the fact that all controlled airfields have their own control zones (class C or D). Though, on the other hand, we have lots of space here
. Still don't understand...