Flying from EGTB we were all actually pretty impressed with the guys at Atlas. They continually improved the service as the weeks went on and, by the end, there were no hassles at all.
We flight planned everything the day before and while there was less flexibility in our days, the VFR version seemed to work well.
A big thanks to Booker ATC for being so chilled out about not having comms with their traffic when it was above 200 feet on the climb out and dealing with rejoin calls with about 60 seconds notice. Apologies to Atlas for all of us who landed 90% of the time still squawking the atlas code and not the airfield code and
They were professional and courteous and did their best to help us at all times and we owe them a big thanks for making what could have been an impossible situation really okay.In fact, we're kind of missing them now!! At EGTB we got a different initial contact frequency which I think we shared with Denham and Waltham and that made such a difference.
Only thing is... next time, can we just have an entry /exit lane?!!