So setting the business, legal and political issues aside, just for a moment, what
are the actual safety issues at NHT? The airspace around NHT feels much better serviced (safer!!) than that around OXF, for example, and my company’s safety reporting stats support this perception.
On the other hand, the PAR/SRA onto RWY 07 at NHT must be an issue? Not that there is anything inherently unsafe about Ground Controlled Approaches, especially when provided by superb RAF controllers and flown by competent modern corporate aviation pilots. But currency must surely be an issue for civvy pilots? How safe is a PAR to minima going to be if the crew only fly one or two of these approaches per annum?? I’d like to see the MAA insist on that fabled RNAV approach and, while that’s being established, the CAA meanwhile insist on some currency/training requirements for civilian use of those RWY 07 instrument approaches…
And now back to the billionaires’ bunfight!!!
