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Area of Responsibility

The area of responsibility for Luton includes the Luton Radar Manoeuvring Area (RMA), the Luton Control Zone, the Luton control Area and the airspace within 40nm of Luton, from the time and place at which:

  • Arriving aircraft are released by area until control is transferred to Aerodrome Control (ADC)
  • Aircraft approaching from outside controlled airspace cross the boundary of controlled airspace until control is transferred to Aerodrome Control (ADC)
  • Over flying aircraft are transferred from an adjacent sector, until such time as control is either returned to the previous sector or passed onto another sector.

The Luton approach function is divided into 2 positions; Intermediate Director (INT) and Final Director (FIN). ESSEX is responsible for the ABBOT and LOREL stacks.

The intermediate director is responsible for taking traffic from the luton gate to be streamed and  handed to the Final Director. The Final Director then takes the streams of traffic and establishes them on the ILS in a safe and expeditious manner.


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