niknak:
Contract it all out to NATS for them to provide a centralised approach from Swanwick
How would that work? Nearest NERL radars Debden and Clee Hill, both long-range radars not suitable for LARS work and probably don't have the required low level cover, and certainly no use for SRAs nor probably for vectoring to final approach.
If the Airport owners are looking for a comparison, they should look at Inverness. They were persuaded to employ a non NATS provider for the instillation and launch of their own radar. The provider was perfectly candid about costs and ongoing expenditure but HIAL still went with it as opposed to centralising the APS function
As someone else has said, how could you centralise that function with NATS? Nearest radar is Allanshill, getting on for 100 miles away. Also, were you aware that the HIAL ATE function is contracted to NATS?
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