VIDEO# NUTTS CORNER TO LONDON

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The video came from here and is posted on line here

comments posted were “Like many UK regional airports at that time the terminal was a ramshackle collection of buildings. Nutt’s Corner would close on 25 September that year, all operations moving to a new facility at Aldergrove.”

VIDEO : North Sea operations. Views of the ops room, equipment and accommodation.

Sourced by Harry Hockney this film shows the interior of the ops room including the ATC cell on an oil rig (Cormorant Alpha?). There are also brief glimpses of the accommodation cabins too. There is no commentary but all the sound and chat of the ops room is present.

also see our other posting on North Sea Operations     and listen to Harry Hockney describing his career in North Sea ATS operations

VIDEO Oceanic Standard Lateral Offset Procedures

At Shanwick each watch undergoes annual revision training to ensure they are all up to date with procedures and have a common understanding of those procedures. It is organised by the Watch examiners and training officers and can be quite difficult to keep it interesting.

Standard Lateral Offset Procedures were introduced when navigation became so accurate that aircraft were now flying the exact same track above or below one another. In the event of turbulence, or any other emergency, this could make it quite interesting. In order to reduce the risk of collision a new procedure had to be introduced – SLOPs, which allowed the pilot of an aircraft to decide whether to fly on track or 1 or 2nm off track. He or she made this decision without reference to ATC in order to ensure it was a completely random selection.

I decided to try to make my watch’s training session a little more interesting by producing this video in order for them to see how the procedure was entered into the FMC.

Pete Clarke

VIDEO : JATCRU Eastern Radar timelapse film.

Sourced by Mike Sergeant, the film shows about 20 hours of civil and military radar traffic on one day in June 7th 1986 between 01:19 and 21:24hrs . It shows the southern North Sea sector so will be of interest to ex Lindholme staff and LATCC staff too. It also shows East Anglian military flights and most of LATCC’s Daventry and Clacton sectors plus a bit of Dover sector. Most of the film uses the radar picture for the Type 82 radar but for a few minutes it switches to the remote radar station at RAF Patrington, probably a Type 80 radar.

The recording was made on a Kelvin Hughes Photographic Projector

Patrington was also used to control the Lightnings at Binbrook

inside Patrington