Crowded Skies documentary
What are the general opinions of the BBC documentary on BBC2 at 2100 sunday 3 Aug?
I only caught the last 15 mins of it and am yet to see the rest of it on tape, but crewroom chat brought up some old bearded duffer bitching about high energy miliyary flying in the open FIR. Apparently the F3s at Leeming got a hard time.
Are they surprised to get TCAS alerts and avoiding action in known AAIAs, MTAs, MDAs????
With respect to MDAs in particular (North sea), they are used CONSTANTLY by the F3 fleet but can only be made active danger areas for particular sorties.
Does anyone else think that the civvie world have enough controlled airspace (forcing the military elsewhere) and if they choose to cut the corners to "cost save" then tough? I bl00dy well do.
Stick to your new double width airways and your Class A NORCA
If you choose to cut the corners, put your coffee and Telegraph down keep a good look out in Class G Airspace like everyone else and don't be surprised when VFR traffic comes within your precious 5nm and 2000ft.
Looking forward to parts 2 and 3 of the series!
Ray.