CAA Launch Consultation on Airspace Modernisation
Sep02

CAA Launch Consultation on Airspace Modernisation

The UK CAA have published their draft ‘Airspace Modernisation Strategy’ for stakeholder feedback, and are seeking comments by Monday, 10 September 2018. The CAA say that in its current state, the design and operation of UK airspace is constraining the growth of commercial aviation and causing delays to passengers. Any constraint on growth should come from the number of runways on the ground, or the restrictions imposed on the use of...

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Obi Juan – Yak-52 Check Flight
Sep01

Obi Juan – Yak-52 Check Flight

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Boeing 747 Lands at Hartlepool College
Sep01

Boeing 747 Lands at Hartlepool College

Hartlepool College of Further Education, has celebrated the opening of its new Travel, Tourism and Aviation training centre. The centre features part of a genuine Boeing 747 fuselage, reassembled at the college, allowing students the opportunity to train in an authentic environment. Darren Hankey, Principal of Hartlepool College of Further Education, said: “The Travel Tourism and the Aviation departments here at the college have just...

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Line in the Air?
Sep01

Line in the Air?

As FTN went to print last month, the UK Civil Aviation Authority published its decision to grant Farnborough Airport new controlled airspace, some six years after the possibility of controlled airspace for Farnborough had first been formally mooted. The airspace proposal put forward by airport operators TAG Farnborough Airport was modified by the CAA, in order it said to afford easier access to non-commercial, light aircraft traffic,...

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