On weekends no radar surveillance at Plymouth but ATC in the tower still provide a control service in G and separate IFR from other IFR's they know about.
Their CAA clearly lacks the leadership to allocate an ICAO airspace classification to the airspace- no doubt scared of being attacked by anonymous dopes on PPRUNE.
They just go on calling it G. You don't get that type of incompetence in the USA.
Bloggs, our G is not F! There is in fact no ICAO airspace classification below D that includes VFR in the system. This is for good proven safety reasons- if a system relies on VFR calling in the blind, accidents will result because there is no proof that the radio is actually working, let alone on the correct frequency!
I will say it again - the UK CAA is the most incompetent aviation regulator in the world. The UK once had a viable GA and Airline aircraft manufacturing industry- all now destroyed by an out of touch regulator.
Their airspace system is clearly the worst in the world after one other.
Last edited by Dick Smith; 26th Apr 2010 at 06:39.