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Yet, if you read the ‘Save DSA’ Facebook group, there’s endless wailing about how Leeds-centric and pro-LBA Look North is. Can’t both be right.

I’m afraid the local authorities are in an unenviable position. Unless they can say that they tried everything in their arsenal, then their political opponents will make hay with it. They have to make a lot of noise in the press. They have to go to court. They have to promise a CPO, even if it...

AIUI, a successful application for interim relief would temporarily prevent Peel from doing something (in this case, presumably, that means knocking down the terminal, digging up the runway, and giving up the CAA aerodrome and ANSP licences and controlled airspace), before a judicial review into...

I believe the check-in desks are indeed moving back, slightly, making more floor space.

The phrase ‘above market value’ is doing a hell of a lot of work. It could mean anything at all. Does it mean: 1. Above market value for a struggling airport that loses £10m/year? Or; 2. Above market value for an attractive piece of land, well served by surface access, which has substantial...

The only thing that the talk of injunctions and CPO will achieve, is spooking Peel into moving rapidly to demolish the terminal and runway, and rip out the ILS and radar as soon as they are able to do so.

NOTAMs can’t be permanent, permanent changes are reflected instead in the AIP. I’d expect further NOTAMs, detailing how the airport is fully closed, to cover the period until the next AIRAC when the permanent withdrawal of the EGCN AIP entry would be promulgated.

What’s wrong with new homes? People need somewhere to live. I tried the new Orbital Route the other day when it opened, it was great. At a rough guess, it shaved about 10mins off the journey from North Leeds to the M1 junction, very impressed.

If you’re not fast, you’re last. Better LBA than East Mids, Manchester or Humberside.

They haven’t, they’ve relinquished their licence because they don’t need to be a licensed aerodrome. They’ll continue to operate as normal.

No, they’re great. I just don’t think they’d be especially receptive to an enthusiast with an airband reception issue. And neither should they be, they’ve got enough to be getting on with.

Just as well, I can imagine the response if you did!

Correct. As far as I’m aware, there is no RT quality issue for aircraft.

It certainly does matter what it looks like from the outside - it’s part of the scenery. We shouldn’t accept mediocre architecture, and more importantly neither should council planning departments. Luckily, the exterior of the terminal extension isn’t hideous, from the pictures I’ve seen.

The old style names which sometimes mirrored town names (BATLI is a good example) are not applied to new reporting points any more, I believe they might be randomly generated now.

POL is back in service. I believe it’s one of the few that are staying, although others like GAM are going. The loss of GAM is one of the drivers for the new SIDs in the Airspace Change Proposal, as the current SIDs rely on GAM.

I would imagine it’s kept full with all the cars that are due to be collected soonest. At busy times of year maybe it’s full of cars that will be collected within a day or so, at less busy times it’ll be cars that will be collected within 2 or 3 days, but it should always be full.

There is no ‘correct’ path as such - as long as the aircraft ends up on a stable final approach then they can elect to take a visual approach (guiding the aircraft visually, without using the ILS), or they can accept vectors from ATC for a shorter final intercept, which looks like the case with...

5000’ possibly looks lower than you might expect, if you are unqualified in met observation.

Before anyone goes out and buys a new scanner, wait until the change happens and see how your old kit does, you might be fine. Despite the changed designators, the actual frequencies that LBA transmit on will be the same as they were before. E.g. - new channel number for Tower is 120.305, but...