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Old 22nd Feb 2014, 19:30
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Crazy Voyager. When the Approach Radar unit moved to West Drayton the powers that be decided that one of the world's leading airfields did not need controllers with radar ratings in the tower and with staff changes it wasn't long before many controllers at Heathrow only held tower ratings. A peculiar by-product of this lunacy was that in the event of a go-around in conflict with a departure off the other runway they could not issue radar headings!!

MF.. I simply cannot understand why helicopters cannot operate into Egham but I come from the days when we were encouraged to use out initiatives..
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