On an escorted visit to Lands End in May we found the Skybus fleet lined up on the apron and the terminal full of passengers waiting for a break in the low cloud. Whilst being shown over the new control tower they were able to 'launch' a few flights and immediately we were into serious classic air traffic control. The first departure, a private German Europa tourer took off westwards , into cloud at the field edge and then had to be monitored by the tower until he was clear of the field to the north and heading east back home before the Twin Otter, which had waited some 5 minutes on the threshold ,could take off westward for Scilly. Next another German tourer heading back east from Scilly had to be monitored until clear of the zone before a Skybus Islander could depart. So we got an impression of the havoc the poor weather causes at Lands End and perhaps why all the resident light aircraft got evicted some 5 years ago.
Last edited by A30yoyo; 14th Oct 2017 at 22:08.