Originally Posted by
flybymike
it would be easier still if they just wrote the strip out by hand instead of using that ludicrously complex software interface.
Hit the nail on the head. It is a very poorly designed system that has forgotten about the fact that VFR traffic may want to cross the airspace. I watched the system in action at another airport, and as the controller found in so cumbersome typing in the details for VFR crossing traffic, he kept a scrappy a5 note pad next to him so he could scribble the details down there.