Originally Posted by
verticalhold
Like 30W I am a pilot who flies out of various London are airports, depending on where my boss wants me (corporate jet) in the last few days myself and a colleague heard of a scheme to allow non-valid controllers to vector on sectors close to their airspace due to staff shortages. I doubt this can be accurate, but it worries me sick. Is there something the pilots should know? Is our safety about to be compromised due to the p££s poor planning of NATS HR and the parsimony of the large carriers who own a chunk of NATS? I'm used to controllers giving me bad news, usually with a smile and a delay, If you don't want to be seen on here feel free to PM me.
VH
yep indeed it is true. A procedure has been written, training was due to start, until the controllers and the union raised some very serious issues. As well as working sectors, the procedure allows approach controllers to vector onto the ILS to an airport they are not valid on. This procedure has not gone away. Watch this space.