Originally Posted by
zkdli
Please help me understand something. Stansted is as busy and at times busier than Gatwick. The airspace is not particularly large in the scheme of things, being only about five miles either side of the approach lanes and from ground level up to about ten miles out in to the approach. why is it necessary to fly through it rather than around it.
From where I am looking on the maps, the only sort of denied transit that would cause a big detour is for aircraft routing nw/se or se/nw. Are there really that many routes in those directions?
I fly from Stapleford, and I currently fall into to the limited radius category due to hiring costs etc. That means that all those nice airfields to the north (Duxford, Cambridge etc) are tantalisingly out of range for me at the mo, due to lack of transit. Just have to save up, I suppose. Plus I really don't fancy the A10 corridor that seems to be busier than the M25 on a Good Friday.....