Originally Posted by
kcockayne
These sort of developments would not have been allowed in the past ; either by the ATCOS or the SRG - where are they in all of this now ?
SRG has been neutered due to lack of staff/money as well. NATS if they can prove a safety case, which they will, will convince them that's it ok and they don't need to look at it themselves. I personally think that's it alot down to the numbers of ex military ATCOs in SRG/CAA that, with the greatest respect to them, don't understand civil atc. Their way of thinking/working is different (btw I'll also throw that at a lot of senior management in NATS).
I think individual controllers are kicking up a stink, along with the union but if a safety case is proven and the regulator signs off on it, how does the individual atco justify not doing it? Very wooly area the "I don't like it" argument.