Just been watching the Right Honourable Member for Tatton (George Osborne) displaying his awsome grasp of our industry on lunchtime news.
I believe his well heeled constituency is the one which has pilots doing aerobatics trying to follow noise abatement SIDs on 24L/R at MAN.
Any t' road, 6500 of us apparently took liberties with it last year interupting croquet games and garden parties. And worse still we did it deliberately "because we know we can get away with it".
Mr Osborne is going to try to have fines levied on operators who flaunt these procedures.
He is also going to try to have arrival noise abatement procedures instigated. This presumably means that you will have to track 095 degrees to intercept the LLZ at 3.2d when making an approach to 06.
On the plus side, he wants night flights stopped out of MAN.
I am all for that one
