Farnborough airspace proposal

[Brian Hope]

TAG Farnborough has considered the comments of stakeholders regarding their initial ideas on their airspace change proposal and have published their reconsidered approach. The change proposal was lodged with the CAA on Friday 3rd July. Relevant documentation can be found here:

www.consultation.tagfarnborough.com

Part E of the document is the relevant part for recreational GA - it doesn't make good reading I'm afraid.

[C Rule]

Brian
I do agree if the CAA accept their bid they will end up with more Class D airspace than Gatwick .
It should be noted that Farnborough's traffic is almost exclusively NOT public transport but in the main GA.

[johnmichie]

I think it's all GA as I seem to remember there's a restriction of no commercial

John

[Mike Potts]

The ACP says that only representative organisations can respond, will the LAA be responding?

[Brian Hope]

I spoke briefly with John Brady on this yesterday after an LAA board meeting and he has a discussion arranged with other involved representatives early next week. Of course LAA will be responding, if permitted as proposed it will have an enormously detrimental effect on recreational GA over a very large area.

[James Chan]

The revised airspace west of Farnborough with the 1500ft and 2000ft bases looks to me like a serious infringement hot-spot.

[SteveHutt]

http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/loca ... s-10425853

Plans which could change to the way air traffic is controlled in north Hampshire have been put on hold, TAG Farnborough Airport has revealed.

At a Farnborough Aerodrome consultative committee meeting, held at Rushmoor Borough Council offices on Thursday November 5, Roger Walker, director of airport operations for TAG, said the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) wanted longer to look at the impacts the changes would have.
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The plans have now been delayed indefinitely....

He said: “The CAA are not happy enough consultation has been done over flexible airspace sharing with recreational aviation users and want us to reexamine how this will be done.”
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[C Rule]

I suspect this issue has not gone away. Tag are unlikely to roll over that easily. We should look out for "the Great Airspace Grab Ver 2"

[tnowak]

Quote:
"On Wednesday 10 August 2016 TAG Farnborough Airport will commence an additional consultation following the identification of opportunities to refine the Proposal submitted to the CAA in July 2015. This consultation will be limited in scope and geographical area, details of which can be found in the document below;

https://www.consultation.tagfarnborough.com

This document contains information on how to respond to the consultation.

TAG Farnborough Airport will hold meetings at Capron House, Midhurst on Thursday 1 September 2016 at 7pm and on Tuesday 20 September 2016 at 7pm for those stakeholders who would like to ask questions regarding these refinements. The 8-week consultation will run until Wednesday 5 October 2016.

Following the closure of the consultation, Feedback Report Part C will be produced, published and submitted to the CAA detailing the responses to this consultation and actions that TAG may take as a result.

A decision on the Proposal is expected by early 2017 and will be published on this website."

Tony Nowak