Up North the Mil at Lossie had a shot at being civil ATCO's providing radar !!! service for Inverness ( well at least monitoring traffic entering the INS hold).The trial has been so " succesful" ( for various reasons I imagine), that HIAL have put the service out for Civil tender ie HIAL inhouse,NATS or Serco.
I am not anti-Mil ( I gave a CFP to Scot Mil the other day
),however apart from the title of Air Traffic Controller I sometimes think Civil/Mil ATCO's have nothing in common.
Rgds
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