Can any Scottish Types help me out, please? A ‘rush job’ has come in and I have to write an assessment paper this weekend for presentation on Tuesday that includes – among other things - an appreciation of the revised ATC procedures applicable to the Scottish TMA, especially for Glasgow.
Can any one point in the direction of online CAA or NATS papers that describe how the TMA now works? Among many other issues in my extensive ‘brief’ points that I need to cover are:
1. Is Glasgow Approach still done from Glasgow or has this function been transferred to the new centre – if not, is it going to be?
2. What radar feeds are now available at:
a. The new centre
b. Glasgow Approach (assuming it’s still at Glasgow – see 1 above!)
Are these mosaic/composite displays or selectable heads? I presume the former at the centre.
3. How is Scottish/Glasgow mitigating the current absence of the Glasgow primary radar? (and from a practical viewpoint how’s it going?).
4. When is the new Glasgow PSR scheduled to be in service? Will this be available at the centre?
5. Are there any TMZs in force in the TMA – has the temporary one covering Whitelee Wind Farm been withdrawn as planned? Are any others planned?
6. Other than the “Proposal for Reclassification of the Glasgow Control Area from Class E to Class D” Stakeholder Consultation, is/are there any other Airspace Change Proposals being staffed?
This section is but an element of the whole paper and time is really against me; and I need to research other esoteric (non-ATC) areas, that are eating up my schedule. Professional inputs from experts would be much appreciated, but pointers to online docs that could be quoted as references (and for my own edification) would be great.