If ABZ is going to grow in the manner the BAA think it will in their Masterplan, shouldn't they be keeping 23 open, maybe even extending it to take smaller fixed wings, assuming heli nos. drop as they expect?
Knock down all the houses around Pitmedden Rd (
) & stick an ILS on 23.
Also bring back Lawsons of Dyce...I loved their sausages!
Who is to say the heli cos. won't make ABZ a "worldwide" training base for the future? They do that to a certain extent now, do they not? Would need 23 kept open then.
Could more use be made of 18, as they do with 32? Always seems to be 16 then 18, yet landing clearance can be given for 32, at least during daylight.