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* The Prestwick Centre, Ayrshire, is home to the Scottish Area Control Centre ( including, since January 2010, the former Manchester Area Control Centre ), which controls traffic over Scotland, Northern Ireland, and up to FL285 over the northern half of England, and the Prestwick Oceanic Area Control Centre which provides a procedural control service for traffic crossing the North Atlantic via the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area.
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Her political achievements include securing an amendment to the Government legislation on National Air Traffic Control Services which secured the building of the new Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre at Prestwick and playing a lead role in persuading the Government to set up the Financial Assistance Scheme and the Pension Protection Fund for those at risk of losing their occupational pensions if their employers go bankrupt.
This situation changed with the opening of the Prestwick Centre in 2010, to which all Operational Services were transferred from the old Atlantic House.
The Prestwick Centre houses the Domestic, Oceanic and Scottish Military Services and allows for state of the art technology to be introduced in future.
Prestwick is also a major air traffic control centre, with both the Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre ( controlling 70 % of UK airspace ) and Prestwick Oceanic Area Control Centre ( Shanwick Oceanic Control-responsible for air traffic over the eastern half of the North Atlantic ) located at the NATS owned ' Scottish and Oceanic Area Control Centre '.
The name is a portmanteau of two of the air traffic facilities concerned with flights operating within this area of International Airspace, these being the Ballygirreen Radio Station, North of Shannon Airport in County Clare, Ireland, and the Prestwick Centre in Ayrshire, Scotland.
The flight control ( Procedural ATC ) aspect within the Shanwick OCA is the responsibility of the United Kingdom and is provided by NATS from the Prestwick Centre and the voice communication aspect is shared between the CDO's ( Clearance Delivery Officers ) based at Prestwick Centre and the Irish Aviation Authority ( IAA ) from Shannon Aeradio, based in Ballygirreen Radio Station.
( Using the callsign " Shanwick Oceanic ", the Prestwick Centre has 2 dedicated VHF frequencies specifically for the issue of Oceanic Clearances to westbound flights about to enter the Shanwick OCA, and also provides an ACARS based system called ORCA-Oceanic Route Clearance Authorisation-for suitably equipped aircraft to obtain such clearances without the need for voice communications ).
During October 2009, NATS transferred its Oceanic ATC operations from the former Prestwick Oceanic Area Control Center ( OACC ) into the £ 300m Prestwick Centre.
Prestwick and Ayrshire
* October 17 – The Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is played for the first time at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, serving Glasgow, is located in Ayrshire.
Scottish Aviation Limited was a Scottish aircraft manufacturer, based at Prestwick in South Ayrshire.
Specifically, the Westland Sea King Mk5 aircraft of HMS Gannet, operating in the Search and Rescue role from Royal Naval Air Station Prestwick, Ayrshire, display a Saltire decal on the nose of each aircraft.
Glasgow Prestwick Airport is Glasgow's second airport, it also serves the Greater Glasgow urban area, situated northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and 32 miles from the city centre of Glasgow.
In the beginning, Prestwick was the only Scottish airport allowed to operate a transatlantic link, largely due to the very benign weather conditions on the Ayrshire coast.
In her book about Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire councillor Ann Galbraith writes about this tough time in the airport's history, saying that " if it hadn ’ t been for Matthew Hudson the airport wouldn ’ t be here today ".
* On 28 April 1958, Vickers Viscount G-AORC crashed at Craigie, South Ayrshire on approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport when the pilot misread the altimeter by a margin of.
Prestwick (, ) is a town in South Ayrshire on the south-west coast of Scotland, about south-west of Glasgow.
Prestwick is on the Ayrshire Coast Line between Glasgow Central and Ayr.
Prestwick lies within the South Ayrshire council area.
This change of plan from the Scottish Executive was because of the Kingston Bridge's inability to handle an increase in traffic: the thinking was that the increased traffic from the new road will not then go straight over the bridge and will enable traffic from the south east, heading west to Ayrshire, Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow Prestwick Airport, or the docks at Greenock, Hunterston and Braehead, to bypass the Glasgow city centre section of the M8.
Prestwick Golf Club is located in the town of Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
* Prestwick Golf Club, South Ayrshire, Scotland
* Prestwick St. Nicholas Golf Club, South Ayrshire, Scotland
* Glasgow Prestwick International Airport ( PIK ) is located 29 miles south west of the city in South Ayrshire and caters mainly for charter flights, low-cost airlines, and freight traffic.
As part of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which begun in 2011, the Boundary Commission for Scotland has proposed changes to the Central Ayrshire constituency which would see Irvine moved to a proposed " North Ayrshire and Arran " seat, with Prestwick, Troon and the entire Kyle electoral ward moved into a reconfigured contituency called " Kyle and Cumnock ".
The constituency was created by merging the Ayr burgh and Prestwick burgh components of the Ayr District of Burghs constituency with parts of the South Ayrshire and Kilmarnock constituencies.
Peter Howson was born in London and moved with his family to Prestwick, Ayrshire, when Howson was aged four.
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Vandalia is a sister city to Lichtenfels, Germany and Prestwick, Scotland.
* The inaugural British Open is won by Willie Park senior at Prestwick Golf Club.
In physical terms, Prestwick is Scotland's largest commercial airfield, although in passenger traffic terms it sits in fourth place after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow International, and Aberdeen Airport all of which are operated by BAA.
It is telling however, that many years since those proposals were made, Glasgow Prestwick Airport does have its own railway station, something that even Glasgow International Airport does not have.
Today, part of the Prestwick site is occupied by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm with RNAS Prestwick, ( officially known by the Royal Navy as HMS Gannet ), where a detachment of 3 Sea Kings provide a search and rescue role, covering one of the largest SAR areas of the UK including Ben Nevis, the Lakes, Northern Ireland and past the Irish coast.
For this reason, it is often used as a diversionary airport when weather conditions close aviation hubs elsewhere in the United Kingdom-heavy snowfall in the recent severe winters of 2009 and 2010-2011 resulted in large numbers of intercontinental flights bound for London Heathrow and elsewhere to be temporarily diverted to Prestwick.
Glasgow Prestwick Airport is considered to be the only piece of United Kingdom territory on which Elvis Presley ever set foot, when the United States Army transport plane carrying him home stopped to refuel in 1960, whilst en route from Germany.
Irvine is also well served by several arterial roads, namely the A78 ( Greenock to Prestwick ), A71 ( Irvine to Kilmarnock and beyond to Edinburgh ), A737 ( through the Garnock Valley to Glasgow via the M8 ) and the A736 to Glasgow
The A77 is a crucial link from Glasgow to one of its two major airports, Prestwick Airport, and to the three main ferry terminals at Stranraer, Cairnryan, and Troon for sailings to Northern Ireland.
Prestwick Airport ( used by RyanAir and several other airlines ) is connected directly to Wemyss Bay by FASTBUS 585, which runs twice an hour.
It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport.
The nearest station is just over 2 miles away, at Glengarnock which provides direct rail links to Glasgow Central station and services to the Clyde coast and Glasgow Prestwick airport.
Beith is approximately 13 miles south of Glasgow International Airport, 21 miles north of Glasgow Prestwick airport and 60 miles west of Edinburgh airport.
The town is served by Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which serves many European destinations as well as transatlantic and other international cargo flights.
To the north of Prestwick is the small village of Monkton.
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