Actions on Interception
I was reading the London 2012 Airspace "Actions on Interception" leaflet yesterday; it documents the non-standard interception procedures to be used during the Olympics.
I live under the northern part of the LTMA, between Luton and Stansted and today I heard what sounded like two fighters manoevering in or above the cloud for a while around lunchtime.
It set me wondering. The interception procedures are designed for visual meteorological. conditions. How will they handle unidentified traffic that is in the sort of IMC we have had for the last few weeks? Visual interception and aircraft identification may not be possible. Will they go straight to the part of the document that states that they may use lethal force?