Originally Posted by
Islandlad
1 How do you judge the level of rain from a digital tower?
2 Really? (I am not against remote towers for some operations)
3 What is in the new 'tower' that is new tech or could not be put into the old one. 30 years is not old for a UK tower.
Do you have an aldis lamp now? Will you have a digital one in LCY TWR 2?
Are you going to have virtual early goes?
1. That's fairly simple Zooker. It's not like observers at Stansted or Luton step out onto the balcony and put their hand out to gauge the rain...
That's what Met observers are trained to judge, using a variety of available indications.
2. Yes (In my opinion)
3. For one, you can't put flight labels on windows, nor can you put map overlays on them, and plenty more good reasons.
An ALDIS lamp is a basic requirement today (though as I understand it not all airfields have them??). If you'd looked around the subject I'm sure you'd have noticed that a Light Signal Gun attached to a PTZ camera can fulfil this requirement.