Originally Posted by
Hawk98
ACW VGL, Tutors don't operate without ATC as far as I'm aware, I've been flying at Boscombe Down 6 times and I've had to wait for the ATC staff to come off lunchbreak several times
Tom
Although Air Cadet gliders, powered or unpowered, do not require ATC , AEFs and UASs' have in my experience, always been required to operate with it.
At Shawbury for camp one year, we had to wait for over an hour until the SDO (who was a controller) got to the tower before the first aircraft even taxiied.
Although having said that, if there is a detachment to a civil airfield which normally operates AFIS or A/G, I dare say the authorising officer would allow this, but I can't think of any airfields where this might happen, perhaps ACW VGL would care to enlighten us all?