CTA/CTR/ATZ is deactivated and now class G, but are still depicted on the latest map update.
It usually takes few cycles to finally remove it from the maps.
Looks like the airspace is finally deactivated by NOTAM – since I was flying in the area today, they were on my list, and it says the CTA/CTR/ATZ is deactivated and now class G, but are still depicted on the latest map update.
I shall miss this. I used to point out that it was Europe’s only indoor airport – or at least I presumed that the planes taxied inside the terminal, because there were never any parked outside.
Latest NOTAM shows the CTA/CTR/ATZ is active from 0800 to 2200 – if the airport’s closed, why the controlled airspace, and why the spend on ATCOs? (If they are just providing LARS, then the CAS could surely be notamed inactive at least until it gets removed permanently).
Not that the CAS is really much of a problem, I’ve only flown through the area a few times but never had any issues getting a clearance.
Doncaster Robin Hood. We will miss it. The famous ROGAG 20 SOUTH Departure :(
Have been flying there for more than 15 years…
It was an agreement to keep honouring LARS after closure before finding a solution
So Doncaster whilst closed will maintain the airspace with air traffic services according to CAA. Can anyone think why?
I suspect, looking at the speed of it, that a deal has been done under the table with some property shark consortium.
Otherwise, you have a number of business tenants who don’t use the airport and will obviously carry on paying their rent, so you have income, possibly quite a lot. They could have laid off ATC (to get an immediate and substantial fixed cost saving; probably a million a year or two) and get some FISOs or A/G.
A “GA owners’ consortium” to buy the aviation facility would be the ideal solution but unfortunately almost everybody in UK GA wants to freeload off everybody else; even a based TBM owner won’t pay a penny for security of tenure for his multi million quid plane.
It looks like the controlled airspace will linger till possibly November 18th according to a note in Skydemon. There doesn’t seem to be any NOTAMs deactivating the CAS right now. Any ATCOs still working that airspace? I’d personally still avoid it if I didn’t get a response on the radio.
Too bad if the airport is lost, as we know, once an airport is gone, it’s gone forever due to the impossibility of getting planning permission for even a grass strip.
Peter wrote:
Doncaster airport closed today.
That’s the reason I went there a few weeks ago! :)
Peter wrote:
They didn’t waste much time.
True. They were loosing money… Although there is talk of a compulsory purchase (?), which is supposed to allow to buy it back.
