TWR providing APP control
 

Hello,
Im working on my bachelor thesis and want to know if anyone know a place, where TWR provide an approach control (either whole app or in form of director). I can think of some Polish airfields such is Lublin (TWR controls traffic up to FL135).

Thank you
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I have seen several aerodromes like that in Turkey: LTAJ, LTAY, LTCA, LTCB, LTCD, LTCE, LTCF, LTCI, LTCK, LTCN, LTCO, LTCR, LTCS, LTCP, LTCT, LTCU, LTCV, LTCW, LTFD, LTFG...

Biggin Hill (EGKB) ?
Gloucester (EGBJ) ?

You probably need to make a distinction between a procedural approach control service and one using surveillance equipment.. Your reference to Director suggests that you are thinking about a surveillance service. A procedural control service, can usually be provided more easily although those with the necessary qualifications and competence are less commonly found compared with 'the old days'!

Cranfield (EGTC)
Woodvale (EGOW)
Perth (EGPT)

True, but it does say APP, not APS

Used to fly night flights into Bournemouth, 0300 ish. The controller would do the approach control from the radar room and when we were established on the ILS they would go upstairs and do the tower control. (only one person on duty).

They certainly should not have been doing that. Perhaps they had approval to do it from the aerodrome control room, otherwise....

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There's no ATC at Perth. It's air-ground

Originally the radar room was about 5 steps down from the VCR and behind a curtain. It was done this way for quite a few years.

Sorry, I think it's just me getting old, in my day APP was approach generally or approach procedural, and approach radar was APR. But the reference to Director suggests it's not just procedural that is of interest.

Don't know what the state of play is in the UK these days although the CAA was not keen on the idea of providing a surveillance service whilst also providing TWR when the idea was first mooted, I recall that there were limits on traffic (one at a time) so that the controller would not be providing both services at the same time. I think that, like many licensing 'policies' of the day, such limitations were relaxed quite quickly in certain circumstances - but, as I say, I've no idea how relaxed they've become.

For what it's worth, the last time I was at Charleroi I think there was a single controller doing both aerodrome control and vectoring inbounds but I don't know if that was the normal mode of operation.

Yes, there are several TWR's in New Zealand that provide both an aerodrome control and procedural approach control service. NZNV, NZDN, NZNS, NZNP, NZNR, NZGS.

Didn’t the night shift ATCO at Bournemouth fall over and break a leg one night while on duty about 20 years ago or am I imagining that?

I remember a case like that; don't know if it was Bournemouth (may have been Coventry) but the guy who fell downstairs couldn't move and it wasn't until an aircraft called and got no reply that the pilot managed to contact somebody at the airport and asked them to find out what had happened.
Apart from that, in the '70s no airfields in the north of Scotland had radar so the tower controller operated TWR and APP bandboxed; FISOs hadn't been invented so the tels officer was supposed to be trained to provide aerodrome information.

Sorry not beeing specific and missleaded with the APP service. I ment APS... So TWR providing APS.. Radar services too.

Can be done in the UK under 'low traffic' conditions but I don't know the details as it happened after I retired in 2008.

Airfields in the North of Scotland still don't have radar, with the exception of Sumburgh and Inverness.

I'm sure the chap in Toulouse was doing both last time I was there (that was before COVID though so might not be the case now). Wasn't much traffic around and can't remember much other than our surprise that he was doing everything at quite a large airport.

LJPZ, LJMB, LJCE

Just goes to show what an experienced ATCO can do.