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Old 5th Feb 2012, 22:44
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Because their ATC environment has received sufficient infrastructural investment over the years whereas the UK's hasn't. Outside CAS, most of the time, the level of air traffic radar service provision (or even FIS) in the UK is virtually non-existent.
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