Near miss in UK.

[planedriver]

These guys need to buy more than a lottery ticket to have escaped this near miss.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-49715399

 

 

[Downunder]

I'm not sure about commending the control tower. 

 

If they were doing their job properly this situation would not have arisen in the first place?

 

 

[planedriver]

For sure, the instructor reacting to the shadow and hearing the other aircraft noise get's the gurney in my books.

 

A situation that the tower should have been on top of way before that point.

 

 

[onetrack]

"Trial flying lessons" says the sign. Learn here, via "trial and error"?  

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Sibson is for all intents and purposes and uncontrolled aerodrome. The "tower" has not ATC or flight information service. It has an air/ground radio service, whch simply passes on information about the airfield - e.g. wind, runway currently being used (i.e. they don't stipulate which runway to use, either). My home airfield also as an a/g radio - and more often than not, it is not manned. Crazy when you think about it as there is also an active parachuting operation there...

 

 

[spacesailor]

Does the person on the ground have a "Ground Aviation " radio licence? .

 

spacesailor 

 

 

[facthunter]

Unless you are qualified and authorised for ATC duties you would want  something in the way of a dispensation to actively CONTROL traffic. Advisory is all you can do "officially". At the subsequent inquiry perhaps doing nothing at a dangerous time might be questioned but "the law is an ass" they say. Nev

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

I am not sure of the exact licence the radio operators have, but they have to do some training and pass a test. It is of a much lower standard than ATC. ot Aerordroe FLight Information Offiver.