Hi Jock
I'm one of the guys in the gliders flying out of Feshiebridge. And it looks like we're the ones taking the hit on airspace. Especially the conversion of advisory route N560D into CAS starting at 6000' going to FL105.
I've never seen any Inverness traffic anywhere near that level and if you look at the actual use of that route on
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/2582/20130...yDensities.pdf
then the actual traffic patterns in it look like:-
FL75 - 55 Nil
FL95 - 75 Nil
FL115 - 95 nothing going all the way through
FL 135 - 115 mimimal
And then it begins to build up a bit
And most of the traffic in Scotland is routing direct to destination in anything but N560D.
So why are we going to be stuck with a huge bit of airspace at 6K top FL 105??
All answers welcome