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Old 3rd May 2008 | 09:09
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bad bear
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UK airspace, living in the past ?

Radarspod

The airspace of the UK is developing for the future, not to meet the needs of the past

sadly this is what is definitely not happening
RNP 5 nav and controllers giving vector belongs to WW2 era. If we were even in the 1990's we would be on PRNAV and hardly talking to ATC at all. The way things are done inside CAS is well past its sell by date.

e.g.
To require an airway 22nm wide for aircraft to operate autonomously is ridiculous in modern times (N862/4)
or
Having the BNN holding pattern over the Heathrow out bounds is insane, and the current TC North plan does nothing to relieve this bizarre bottleneck in the sky

So why not sort the problems of big aeroplanes against big aeroplanes inside controlled airspace first, that is where the real problems are.

Does recreational flying fit in to your vision of the future?
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