Channel Island airspace still closed
I reported yesterday that Channel Island airspace was open for inter-island ( Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney for anyone searching using keywords) flights, including commercial flights (mostly Trilanders), but CLOSED for all movements into and out of the zone. On Friday a VFR corridor was created to 50 North and worked well. However it appears that there was an airprox in Jersey with a Challenger jet and this has created general paranoia about the legal consequences of allowing VFR. There is hardly any traffic without commercial flights so why the large numbers of highly qualified ATC staff cant figure out a way of organising lanes with recommended heights N/S bound and speed limiting etc is completely beyond me and my contacts in the GA community. The problem is now having dug themselves a legal hole they are unlikely to change without loss of face.
This is now off the volcano topic, it there a better thread on legal, airspace, madness issues?
STOP PRESS UPDATE 1430z NOTAM is coming out allowing SVFR!!
Someone has rattled the cage in the assylum, or they have no faces to lose?
Last edited by molluscan; 19th Apr 2010 at 14:39.
Reason: UPDATED NEWS