Jackie
As good as radar may be, there is too much interference from hangar buildings, passenger terminals, food trucks etc to be highly accurate enough for controlling aircraft taxiing.
Then what, may I ask, is the point of ground radar? It must be good enough, otherwise airports would not invest £million in it.
Jackie
I see a number of new trainees coming through that have never seen a cockpit, which makes me wonder how much of an appreciation of the pilot's role and tasks they fully have. I would glady welcome going on more famil flights.
And therein lies a great problem that your DofT seems incapable of addressing. They think they are making aviation safer, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Aeromad
... which will, of course, be lost in week 1's dole money...
And there is another problem that nobody will grasp. The unemployment budget would pay for one new Heathrow (or the equivalent) EVERY YEAR for the next 'n' years. The UK could revise the entire transport infrastructure of the nation in just one decade, if they 'induced' the parasites to work.
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