I remember my Dad saying that when the weather was bad he would hear "This is the Supervisor" from the USAF atc and that person would give them a precision radar approach.I have his airport brief book in the loft dated from the early 1970s .I will have a look for it and see if I can give any more detail.
The corridors were 10 nm wide and you could guarantee that all the summer thunderstorms wer born within the corridor.Going outside involved declaring an emergency!
Each flight had to be authorised by a committee of French/US/UK and Russians at the Berlin Air Safety Center.This was housed in the building where the bomb plotters who had tried to kill Hitler were executed.
The city in the West reminded me of a set from a spy movie.There was an atmosphere that everybody was being watched.Arrivals were not allowed to overfly the East and the tower in the above post(the Onion)and a large tower block near to it( the matchbox)were on the end of the downwind leg for Tegel.Woe betide anybodywho flew east of the wall!
I was there in 1989 the night the Wall came down and as they say the rest is history.
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