On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:29:20 +0200, John Smith
wrote:


Well... in the German glider forum, a controller says otherwise.
Personally, I can't judge it, but I tend to believe the controller.

Compared to, say, Frankfurt Rhein-Main, Hahn airport has a D airspace
whose dimensions in runway heading are not much smaller, yet it's got
less than ten percent of Rhein-Main's traffic. No airliner is forced
to fly through E on approach to Rhein-Main.

Whatever some controllers say, at Hahn it is not necessary to route
approaching IFR traffic through E airspace at less than 7.000 ft - the
D airspace is easily long enough to lead IFR traffic at 7.000 ft onto
the extended centerline, permitting them to start their final descend
safely within D.

Ryan Air has a tendency to fly very tight visual approaches in order
to save time and fuel, therefore they need to be relatively low on the
downwind leg.


As it was class E, they were cleared for that route by the controller.
So blame the controller and not Ryanair.

Well... I wouldn't be that keen on blaming Ryan Air if there wasn't a
definitive tendency to provide province airports in Germany with huge
TMZ's and D airspaces immediately when Ryan Air starts operationg
there - even if there are only a handful of flights (as, in the case
of Zweibruecken, less than ten) per day.


Regards
Andreas