Jersey have now introduced a 7day/week mandatory PPR for any inbound VFR flight to the CI.
That's amazing.
"The temporary PPR process is
a relatively normal course of action to take when dealing with a major change in air traffic operations, as is the case with the new air traffic control centre at Jersey Airport."
I was about to make a comment about O'Hare and about the overall abuse of class A airspace (in the UK, France and Italy for example) and the fact that a flight plan should give them adequate informaton, but I see the rebuttal paper deals with it already. It is clearly a "GO AWAY" message for GA.
Does anybody know why the US is so much better at air traffic control than Europe ? For instance, Lille Approach panicking when they have more than 5 aircraft inbound to land at any given time whilst Urbana Champaign doing this effortlessly ? [No intention to be polemic here, or to wallow in stars or stripes - just want to understand]
Is it staff numbers and staff costs ? Systems at regional airports (the major airports have top notch stuff. The FAA have people over admiring EBBR TWR as something they have never seen before) ? Inefficient regulatory procedures ?