And at Redhill, you even get to appear on the arrivals / departures board on the website. Albeit pretty briefly
https://www.redhillaerodrome.com/arrivals-departures |
Originally Posted by Jan Olieslagers
(Post 10667997)
The Brits keep on stunning me with their contradictory language.
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Originally Posted by patowalker
(Post 10668866)
It is only the Continentals that find it contradictory. Nothing unusual in that. :)
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Booking out - how quaint. So 1950's.
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Originally Posted by nomorecatering
(Post 10669028)
Booking out - how quaint. So 1950's.
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Originally Posted by BillieBob
(Post 10668110)
What gives you the idea that Redhill is not a controlled aerodrome? Eurocontrol defines a controlled aerodrome as "An aerodrome at which an air traffic control service is provided to aerodrome traffic" and, according to the UK AIP, Redhill provides an ATC service (Redhill Tower) between the hours of 0845 and 0715. Where, pray, is the misuse of aviation language?
Alex just beat me to it. |
Originally Posted by oceancrosser
(Post 10669044)
So what happens between 0715 and 0845? Tower closed for breakfast?
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As I mentioned above, 'booking' out' at a military airfield has a different result from that at a civil airfield.
At a civil airfield, your details are used by the ATSU or A/G operator. At a military airfield, your details are additionally passed to your destination airfield and they are informed when you are airborne to enable overdue action to be taken if required.. |
Notification to the destination of the flight details is the case only if a 'flight plan' has been filed and that is the same for everywhere. Otherwise it is not done even from an MOD airfield.
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Originally Posted by ZG862
(Post 10668973)
Not true. Whilst Jan's assumption about grass airfields not being controlled was a mistake (for which he apologised), he's not wrong to criticise the language used in the legislative and regulatory documents that litter aviation. If you want an example (to take us even further from the question in my original post), explain the value of "OUT" in CAP 413's "Standard Words and Phrases".
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If you want an example (to take us even further from the question in my original post), explain the value of "OUT" in CAP 413's "Standard Words and Phrases" Thanks, Chevvron, for correcting my earlier typo. |
Thanks Chevvron and Fl1ingfrog for contributing to the subject under discussion.
"Overdue action" sounds very much like an alerting service. Civil ATC does this too ;). |
Booking Out
CAP 493 Section 1 Chapter 2 para 14
14. Booking-Out Pilots who do not file a flight plan, either full or abbreviated, are required to inform the ATSU at the aerodrome of their departure. This is referred to as booking-out. The ATSU is to record the departure. No further action is required. for the sake of completeness 10. Filing of Flight Plans 10.1 Flight plans fall into two categories: (1) (2) Full flight plans; the information required on Form CA48/RAF2919. Abbreviated flight plans; the limited information required to obtain a clearance for a portion of flight, e.g. flying in a control zone, crossing an airway etc. filed either on the RTF or by telephone prior to take-off. and 10.3 The destination aerodrome will be advised of the flight only if the flight plan information covers the whole route of the flight. Busy ATSUs I would suggest prefer a booking out over the phone to alleviate RT workload and naturally be forewarned about potential movements. |
Booking out as a thing is no longer required. |
Originally Posted by ShyTorque
(Post 10670203)
You won't get much joy if you try calling for start at many UK airports without booking out in advance.
In my (limited) experience, the controller at such an airport will do their best not to sound too tetchy when they say "G-ABCD, Anytown Tower. Have you booked out? I don't have a strip for you." This is responded to with anything from apologetically (the pilot shuts down and toddles off to book out over the phone) to with a great deal of bluster and indignance ("Do you know who I am? Can't you just take my booking now?!"). The latter sometimes results in very long waits at holding points... Anyway, my query was: what is the best way to find out whether or not booking out over the phone is customary at aerodrome x and if so, what's the process? I think Jonathan's response was the most reliable for my purposes - phone the ops number published on the AIP and ask. I'm still interested in what happens in other countries. It seems that the norm in many places is to book out over the radio, which must either be quite an overhead for the controller or mean that less information is recorded than the "PYM" type (plus fuel endurance) stuff asked at my local. Thanks for all your input. |
I'm still interested in what happens in other countries. It seems that the norm in many places is to book out over the radio, |
There must be many more reasons for 'booking' routines.
During ab inition PPL training at Mascot (Sydney) in 1969, we were required - at least when leaving the circuit - to book out where we were going to fly, to comply with "SAR Watch". [Search & Rescue]. Nowadays as a UK "airfield" operator - i.e. a grass field - in common with many others we keep a 'C' book for pilots to log their flights after arrival. The Police seem to find its availability helpful & the accumulated movements, particularly over the first 10 or 12 years from starting the strip, are evidence of my Common Law rights for the land's 'change of use': all without submitting a Planning Application. |
to book out where we were going to fly, to comply with "SAR Watch". we keep a 'C' book for pilots to log their flights after arrival. |
The Police seem to find its availability helpful |
Pilot DAR.
You make it sound as if the UK was a police state. :) We enjoy the privilege of being able to fly abroad from and return from abroad to any small airfield or farm strip in the UK. It is only right that we play by the rules and that the Border Force are able to check that we do. Airfield operators and users do not object to visits by the Border Force and, to the contrary, welcome them. Why would anybody object to them looking at the arrival and departures log of an airfield, normally only filled in by visiting pilots? |
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