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    London is now officially a militarized no-fly zone

    rokurBy rokurJuly 15, 2012Updated:July 15, 2012No Comments2 Mins Read
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    The Aviationist reports that as of this weekend, the usual civilian control of London’s skies is (temporarily) over, and the Royal Air Force is in charge. A new task force called “Atlas Control” will monitor London’s airspace in the weeks leading up to and during the Olympics, with most traffic over the city banned or tightly regulated. “Not since the Second World War have our skies been so closely guarded.” Wow, read Gizmodo.

    The Aviationist says flying near London should be pretty tense:

    All pilots have to be in constant communication with “Atlas Control”. Even those that are within 10 nautical miles of the outer boundary are expected to keep an ear on the Atlas frequency at all times.

    This is what happens if they don’t listen:

    If interception is performed by a helicopter, it will approach the target on the left side and rock its aircraft, the target aircraft will be expected to rock its wings and follow the helicopter, failure to comply will result in the helicopter displaying a sign which reads “follow me” again, the target will rock its wings and follow the helicopter. A third attempt will then take place. The helicopter will alert the target with a green laser or fire a flare and failure to comply may be deemed to require an armed response.

    The helicopter will be armed with a sniper who will have several weapons at his/her disposal, this would be as a last resort.

    If intercepted by a Typhoon, the fighter will join the target at the left and rock its wings. As above the target needs to respond by rocking its wings and follow the Typhoon; if this does not happen the Typhoon will break from left to right on from of the target aircraft and failiure to comply will result in the Typhoon again breaking from left to right in front of the target whilst firing flares. The decision then will be taken as to shoot down the target.

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