Jacksman
118.5Mhz is being used during the day for all P18 inbound traffic and as director for other inbounds. This is due to the extra co-ordination and vectoring needed with P18 i.e. some aircraft accepting RAS and some unable to and having to be kept within P18 and our original CTR/A, which was never designed for this! (Airspace being requested to meet P18, you’re support always welcome!)
118.5Mhz is CAA protected to 42.5nm and FL245, we been having problems when Manchester put aircraft over outside these limits. This is being addressed with Manch and should be getting better. Also the Newcastle radar position 124.37Mhz can get very busy very quickly, military & transits etc.
By the way we are also working on the release point of P18 traffic, currently abeam TILNI level or descending FL140.
Mister Geezer
Advise the ATSU you’re with, they probably cannot hear the interference like in the above case.
On a similar note can aircraft stop calling Wick outside the normal range of there tower frequency 119.7Mhz as it is also Newcastle tower freq! This way round we do hear you and note each call, mind you been doing this for years – doesn’t change anything!
