What level of ATSU are you planning?
Presumably A/G to start with, extending to FISO as traffic builds?
Keep it under your own control I’d say, but why not go and talk to the ATSU at the major airfield at this point in the planning process? They may have a lot to contribute.
Moggy
agreed – we’ll only have a handful of movements per day with perhaps a couple of dozen on weekends, so we need the utmost basic cover we can legally get away with. Our main problem is that we are right on the edge of the controlled zone – the airfield is actually the VFR marker for the zone…..!
Cost isn’t so much of an issue to be fair – it will all go into the grand application. The airfield is only a small part of what we are doing. (Words you thought you’d never hear No.1…….)
TwinOtter, you are dead right. The residents will complain…. alot…. However, if we can go to them with a suitable plan, we can get the council’s backing reletively easily. Planning permission shouldn’t be much of an issue as the site has been used by the MOD, albeit very intermittently, within the last 10 years. There have been prior applications submitted, but none of them we what you could call ‘effective’ propositions. Most seem to be of the type ‘ we are pilots, we must fly.’ No thought has gone into the wider community.. We are different. With any luck, we should be in a position to show you all what we are up to within the next few months, but for now, we need to keep the fuss to a minimum. (hence I can’t say where…)
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