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Old 15th July 2009, 12:35   #121 (permalink)

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Air Traffic Control is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Zooker wrote
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at McNERC, ATCOs will use adjustable 'workstations', - whatever that means.
Take a fam trip to Maastricht; had them there for years. Basically the height of the desktop and the footrest can be electrically adjusted for comfort, and by raising or lowering the seat to bring your eye-level to a set of reference marks an ergonomically perfect working can be found ....





..... in theory
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