Originally Posted by
Pierre Argh
Environmental Lobby... I presume you mean they object to the establishment of CAS as a means of stopping expansion? We aren't talking about CAS here (or more properly "regulated" airspace, nor am I suggesting the rules for it's establishment need change, just that there might be way to offer a tadge more protection to smaller airports who do not have the protection by having various sizes of ATZ?
I can assure you that even changing an ATZ from 2 to 2.5 nm ( recently done it ) creates just about as much hassel as a full blown ACP.
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