Cat111
Just what in hell is happening in the RAF today. If I am correct ALL the RAF's tanker and transport assets now are located on a SINGLE runway at BZZ and it doesn't even have cat 111 ! And an A330 without ETOPS, perhaps the CAT 111 equipment (which isn't very extensive, or at least it wasn't on 767s) has been removed, too, ! Beggars belief.
High time CAS, Air Commander and MOD mandarins got a grip on reality and came into the 21st century and learned in detail about all weather and long range operation of large modern aircraft. Perhaps someone could or should point out to them that Cat 111 has been routine in civil aviation for many, many years and is done not as a technical exercise but as a means of improving efficiency, enhancing safety and reducing costs , surely things which are as relevant to the RAF as they are to the airlines.
At least the RAF is, at long last, getting a decent tanker with considerable capability. Makes my old Victor BK1 look positively puny !
Last edited by RetiredBA/BY; 19th Nov 2012 at 07:01.