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Old 31st Jul 2002, 10:19
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Helinut
 
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The declared minimum cloud base was 700 ft for twins. One morning when the Farnborough ATIS was announcing BKN 700 ft there was some confusion because landline advice to e.g. ATC at Battersea was that the pad was closed. No mention of this on the ATIS at all. It caused some confusion and various helicopters having to divert.

If someone was going to unilaterally change the pad operating minima, the least that could have been done was to braodcast this on the ATIS.

Other than that, when I was there it seemed to work fine.
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