New Olympic airspace Podcast launched
WOW!! What a fantastic podcast!
The interviewer will undoubtedly get a journalism prize for asking such tricky questions!!! Perhaps he would have been better off asking a selection of the following questions.
- Given the airspace restrictions around the Paralympic Games are less can we conclude that the safety of the spectators and competitors is less important?
- Have you used the AFPEx system? Did you know it's so sh!t that you can't even enter a route using VRPs and Aerodrome codes?
- Given that students on a navex need to be allowed to make mistakes and will deviate from their flight plan, do you plan to intercept them or just shoot them down?
- Given the Government's commitment to deliver a safe and secure games, does the CAA's G-INFO database not provide information that could compromise this?
- It is widely accepted that these restrictions will cause aviation businesses operating in and around the airspace a level of financial hardship, what compensation will they receive and how will it be calculated?
- The distance from the edge of Stapleford's ATZ to the stadium is around 7Nm. Could you really respond within the 4mins it would take for a GA aircraft to get from the ATZ to the stadium? And what would you do?
- Would a better use of resources be not to restrict the airspace, but to control the aircrew and the passengers / students etc that they are operating with during the games?
- Can you guarantee that similar restrictions will not become the norm once the Government have "decided" how successful they were?
I could probably think up 10 more, but what's the point.
