Originally Posted by
Dan Dare
2,000,000 lives in your hands for no loss. Not bad!
Just done a back-of-fag-packet calculation and recon I manage that in 2 months - the thankless world of ATC.
During my ATCO training I did my Area Radar field training at JATCRU Lindholme. One sunday after a busy session, I realised I had had 16 airliners of various sizes under my control, some on crossing routes, some climbing and descending, between 52 30N and 55N (in the 'old' Preston FIR) so assuming an average of 200 pax on each one (from BAC 1-11s up to 747s) , I had been responsible for (roughly) 3,200 human lives for about 30 min.