View Full Version : HRW SVFR - What's going on?
3rd Runway
6th Mar 2001, 23:52
Cat B (civvi) flight wanting to mix it close to the 9L approach lane today was told to B***er off. SVFR was closed (again) and Thames didn't want to play. That well know military airfield just North of HRW offered to help but to no avail.
Excuse me, but doesn't a Cat B have a higher priority than BAW, BMA etc???
Aluminium Importer
7th Mar 2001, 00:26
Hi 3rd Runway,
Where did you hear this?
Any more details?
AI
[This message has been edited by Aluminium Importer (edited 06 March 2001).]
HounslowHarry
7th Mar 2001, 04:03
Take this discussion somewhere else fellas
This is a public forum
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
7th Mar 2001, 12:25
Well that's really made my day.. About time those bloody menaces were stopped.
3rd Runway
7th Mar 2001, 16:47
HRW DIR, just a small point: "those bloody menaces" have been given the status they deserve. I just made the observation as I could not understand why an aircraft operating legitimately within the system endorsed by NATS was refused permission to carry ouit his task because of lower priority, commercial traffic.
PS The aircraft concerned was NOT military and is a regular operator within the locality.
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
7th Mar 2001, 17:43
3rd runway. Sorry, you're obviously not intimately involved with Heathrow ops so it would be as well for us to stop the debate now!