Grass cutting inside the rwy strip
I'm an ATCO at a UK airport handling all types of aircraft, microlights to 747s. Airport ops have a habit of doing the grass cutting during the busiest parts of the day, rather than the quietest, and ATC allow cutting to take place right up to the runway edge unless the aircraft using the runway happens to be a 'jet', when the grass cutting bloke is told to move away from the runway edge.
For my part, I feel very uncomfortable having a vehicle and personnel with (as far as I can tell) no awareness of the traffic situation around them working inside the runway strip and up to the edge of the tarmac while aircraft are landing and departing, but to disagree with the practice would seem to go against unit habit. What grass cutting procedures do others have at their airports? Would you be OK with the situation described?
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