Originally Posted by
madlandrover
No GA, no radar, if it's purely based on movements...!
It's not the radar that's dependent on movements, it's controlled airspace, and I suspect the radar's coming faster than some may have imagined. This could benefit GA at Inverness if the GA operators play it right and get talking to the controllers early about how the VFR/IFR mix will work. At present, the inordinate time taken by an IFR to complete a procedural approach means that the knock-on effect in terms of delays on VFRs is significant. But with radar they can be more confident about separations and so reduce those delays.
The other thing is that Inverness still has two runways. If I was a GA operator at Inverness I'd be talking to the HIAL ops people about the benefits of keeping those two runways open and having simultaneous ops to maximise the movement rate and assist separation of VFRs from IFRs.
NS