You only have to be an occasional user of London LARS, (that may be known to you as Farnborough LARS in various forms, North, East, West) to hear a pilot being warned of an airspace boundary about to be infringed unless the pilot takes rapid action such as an immediate descent or major change of course.
For a year (April 2008 to March 2009), brief details have been logged whenever a controller has become concerned enough to issue such a warning. Not only totals, but which sort of aircraft, for which destinations and departure fields, and ‘positon’ of aircraft.
Whilst a small number of pilots would no doubt insist that they were about to take appropriate action anyway, there must be quite a number of grateful pilots out there who are glad they used the LARS service. Obviously it helps if you have a transponder with Mode Charlie in use, but a basic service is available without a transponder. To see the data collected, see the hot news item on http://www.flyontrack.co.uk
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July 15, 2009 at 12:16 am