AIRSPACE BRIEF

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AIRSPACE BRIEF
Flt Lt Kirsty Scott
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SCOPE

• Airspace Classifications
• Air Traffic Services
• Local Airspace
• Adjacent Airfields
• LARS Service
• Out of Hours/Weekend Services

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AIRSPACE CLASSIFICATIONS

• Controlled Airspace
• Class A Airways below FL195
• Class B Not allocated in the UK
• Class C FL195-660
• Class D CTAs/CTRs surrounding notified
  aerodromes
• Class E Scottish TMA at and below 6000
• Uncontrolled Airspace
• Class F ADRs
• Class G The remainder of UK airspace

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AIR TRAFFIC SERVICES

• RAS/RIS/FIS no more
• Radar Services
• Radar Control
• Deconfliction Service
• Traffic Service
• Non-radar Service
• Basic Service

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LOCAL AIRSPACE

• Class G
• MATZ/ATZs
• MATZ
• GL-3000
• 5nm radius
• 5nm Stubs 1000-3000, 2nm either side of CL
• Active when aerodrome is open
• ATZ
• GL-2000
• 2 or 2.5nm radius
• Active 24hrs
• Airways Class C

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LOCAL AIRSPACE
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ADJACENT AERODROMES

• RAF Cottesmore (LARS) provide radar for
  Wittering and for RAF Wyton
• Wittering/Cottesmore CMATZ
• RAF Marham, Cranwell, Waddington (LARS),
  Scampton, Coningsby, Brize Norton
• USAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall
• East Midlands
• Holbeach, Wainfleet AWR
• Sibson, Peterborough Conington, Northampton
  Sywell, Cambridge, Leicester, Fenland

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x Scampton
x Waddington
Wainfleet
x Coningsby
Cranwell x
Holbeach
x E. Midlands
x Cottesmore
x Fenland
x Leicester
x Marham
x Sibson
Northampton x
Peterboro x
x Lakenheath
x Wyton
x Mildenhall
Brize Norton
x Cambridge
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ADJACENT AERODROMES

• Glider sites
• Husbands Bosworth
• Riseley
• Lyvedon
• Upwood
• Crowland
• Saltby
• Wittering
• Microlight
• Deenthorpe
• Paradrop
• Langar
• Chatteris

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x Langar
x Saltby
x Crowland
x Deenthorpe
x Lyvedon
x Chatteris
x Husbands Bosworth
x Upwood
x Riseley
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LANDING SITES WITHIN THE COTTESMORE/WITTERING
CMATZ
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LARS SERVICE

• Lower Airspace Radar Service
• CAA pay RAF to provide LARS to civil ac
• Provided
• In UK, outside of CAS, up to FL95
• To both military and civil ac, including
  Pipeline/Powerline inspectors, Helimed and Police
  Helis
• Within 30 or 40nm of each LARS unit
• RAF Cottesmore, Waddington, Brize Norton

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LARS SERVICE

• RAF Cottesmore provide LARS service on VHF 130.2
• Manned
• 0830-1800 Mon-Thurs (1730 winter hours)
• 0830-1700 Fri
• RAF Brize Norton
• 0900-1700 Mon-Sun on VHF 119.0
• RAF Waddington
• 0800-2000 Mon-Thu, 0800-1800 Fri, 1000-1700
  Sat/Sun on VHF 127.350

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RAF COTTESMORE LARS

• 30nm radius from Cottesmore
• Call if transiting within approx 20nm
• Pass details
• ac type, position, altitude/height, destination
  and intended route
• They will deconflict light ac with Fast Jet
  traffic
• Harrier flies at 420kts 7 miles per min
• Wittering 20Sqn OCU

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OUT OF HOURS

• Night Flying
• Cottesmore often Night Fly
• Wittering will NOTAM if Night Flying
• Weekends
• 4CGC operate at Wittering Fri evenings, weekends
  and Bank Holidays (daylight hours)
• Frequency 130.1

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ANY QUESTIONS ?