Originally Posted by
climbwithagoodrate
Lots of aircraft; complex airspace/sector design; separation standards; presentation to next sector, etc.
Why don't you arrange a visit to Swanwick and have a look for yourself; you'll get the picture fairly quickly I would imagine...
Thank you for the suggestion. I will do so.
I can understand the logic for tactical positioning of traffic. I also routinely experience in any busy TMA (with no complaints or surprise - because I know that's what's needed to keep things flowing).
What surprised me was being 'tactically positioned' exactly on my flight planned route (which out of interest on the South Coast was KONAN DCT LYD R803 SFD (The headings kept me within about 1 NM of my original magenta line) and going North was tactically vectored about 2 miles east of DTY DCT SAPCO N57 (to about TIPIL where it was own nav POL)