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Old 17th Mar 2016, 11:38
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cumbrianboy
 
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SEN can only be a CAT I airport because primarily the runway width (min for cat II+ ops is 45m, SEN is 37m) and largely the church is in the ILS critical area.

In addition, the current approach lights mean a slightly higher minima even for CAT I, the minima at the moment is 750m but minimum for a CAT I it usually 550m.

That said, over the winter there's very little call for anything better than CAT I so i don't think it's such a major issue.
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