Approach and Radar Service in Airspace Class E - Friedrichshafen
Friedrichshafen (EDNY) and also St. Gallen Airport (LSZR) are very close to each other at the opposite shores at Lake Constance, southern Germany and north eastern Switzerland.
Both Airports are growing, especially the IFR traffic. Unfortunately the approach airspace around the two CTR's is classified to E.
Means a holy bunch of unknown VFR movements, especially on weekends. Numerous encounters of IFR-VFR almost every day... and obviously the hell for an APP ATCO to vector acft for approach thru all this VFR hell... if in any way it is somehow possible... just pure luck nothing serious did happen til today!
And the German authority is not willing to change the airspace classification...!!!
Do we really need another accident in order they finally change this airspace classification?
Are the customers/airliners aware of this? Ryanair, Austrian, Lufthansa, Intersky, Hamburgjet, Execujet...?
Last edited by CrocDundee; 5th Aug 2007 at 07:48.