Mixing Jets and Light a/c
I have a couple of casual questions about ATC in my part of the world which is near Blackbushe and Farnborough. I have often wondered who looks after the ( relatively ) heavy metal which uses FNB and also the Blackbushe jets .
I was prompted to ask because walking the dog the other afternoon in Sandhurst on a very grim dank day I heard a what turned out to be a medium sized biz jet heading for Blackbushe- just breaking cloud about 2-3 miles from the field and still turning onto finals. Not going to guess the height since its never an easy thing to do. However moments after it had passed a light single-Cherokee -appeared crossing right behind where the jet was and also just scudding in and out of the cloud base .Is there formal separation in this area between aircraft since the weather was such that see and be seen would not be realistic with heavy low cloud. Is it something Farnborough radar manages?
Also going back a few years where lovely smokey old DC8s used to frequent Lasham and often used to transit at low level south and north would there be any special measures to separate them from the flow of light aircraft to and from the various airfields in the area like White Waltham, Blackbushe and Popham etc
Appreciate any answers if someone has minute or two
PB