NEW RULES OF THE AIR
SKYWAY CODE IN BRITAIN
REDUCING FLYING RISKS Britain’s new skyway code, designed to impose more positive control on air traffic and reduce flying risks, will be brought into force within the next few weeks. These new rules of the air, which four Government departments have been debating for months past, will: Slice the sky space all over Britain into four separate layers, each reserved for a different class of traffic. Create a new London Control Zone. Britain’s worst air traffic “bottleneck” comprising a circle 50 miles across, with Heathrow Airport as its centre and control located, as new, at Uxbridge. (The old zone lay inside a radius of 24 miles around Westminster Bridge.) Set up seven “stacking” radio beacons at widely separated points and two radio ranges—one at Dorking, the other at Datchet, near Staines—above which aircraft will “queue” while waiting their turn, to land at the London airports in bad weather. Impose instrument-flying rules in all weathers. Agreement on these and other vital principles has been reached by the Ministries of Civil Aviation and Supply, the Air Ministry, and the Admiralty.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 35, 30 May 1947, Page 2
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187NEW RULES OF THE AIR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 35, 30 May 1947, Page 2
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