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Expectations are being carefully managed in everything OC has said recently…

I read it as tacit acknowledgement that a reopened airport will have to have substantial revenue streams other than passenger services, if it doesn’t want to get straight back to losing £10m/year.

There are aviation consultants who have the experience they’re after, and would be happy to take a two-month contract to do what little they could in such a short time. The idea that they’d do it for £500/day is hilarious. I’m very confused about what’s going on here. Presumably they have...

The tarmac areas used to be grassed, and have been covered over so that ancillary vehicles can make use of them. They only need tarmac.

No, you’re not. If this is such a great result for reopening, why did CDC and the #SaveDSA folks spend the last 3 years fighting to prevent this exact outcome? If this is what they wanted to happen, they could have left the CAA to get on with it and they would’ve been at this juncture in 2023...

The first says that Stands 21 A,B and C are withdrawn from use, presumably due to construction work on the new adjacent stands. The second refers to a change to the surveyed aerodrome elevation and the related obstacle clearance heights, which affect a good number of charts, SIDs and...

I'm not sure what you're hoping to hear! As long as they fly straight ahead for 2nm after departing RWY14, they are complying with noise abatement procedures.

...as many of us discovered during the Tour de Runway in 2014!

The reason is as stated by @LeedsPilot above. Different providers of navigation databases interpreting the same data in a slightly different way.

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Sounds like Gainshare funding isn’t going to be confirmed at all, or at least nowhere near the required amount, hence the sudden interest in getting the UK Government to pay. It’s being kicked down the road to give CDC time to soften up the Government, and so that it’s not a controversial topic...

If you look at the planned taxiway configuration for when Pier 2 is open, there are Orange/Centre/Blue taxiways running along the southern side of Pier 2 (November Bravo) the same as between Piers 1 & 2 (November Alpha). This only makes sense if Pier 3 will get built eventually.

I mean… after losing £10m/year for 18 years in private ownership, after CDC exploring all the private sector possibilities and coming up with nothing, if the only way to have an airport is to spend £145m of public money on it… then I don’t think it’s even a question as to whether it’s ‘viable’...

Looking at Google Earth, the new section of Echo extends as far as Kilo, although I expect the majority of outbound traffic (during 23 dual ops) will leave Echo at the intersection with Papa to cross at P1.

Forgive me if I’m missing something, but where has the (widespread) idea that MAI will be the airport operator come from? It’s very clear that the operator will be FlyDoncaster. From what I can see, MAI and FP (who?) are providing consultancy services, and the only timescale mentioned by MAI is...

RNP approaches (and RNAV SIDs) are part of the current LBA Airspace Change Process. Agreed, we (the UK) are ridiculously far behind the rest of Europe with PBN and it’s the CAA’s fault.

The standard missed approach is a climbing RH turn to hold at the LBA at 3000’. This is a very old procedure which, while it is terrain safe, is less than useful in other respects for the current-day operation. Many modern jets find the standard MAP tricky to fly (high energy state approaching...

If LBA T2 doesn’t get torn to bits and recycled with the greatest possible haste, then the whole project will be a huge disappointment.

The CAA were in a phase of encouraging smaller airports like Humberside to apply for airspace back then, hence Southend and Norwich getting CTRs, if my memory serves. Humberside would have gone for it because they were interested in more passenger services back then, not so much now, so it’s not...

Indeed: ‘CAA have repeatedly advised them to make a new application with their operator and that restoration of the old airspace requires a lot of remedial work and that the airspace is not efficient. In other words what we require as airspace as they believe it will take years to regenerate...