Originally Posted by
Brian 48nav
If I remember rightly GATCO pressed for hours regulation after finding that some poor sods at some airfields, particularly in SW England, were working 70hrs plus a week due to staff shortages. Personally at LL I hated the introduction of Scratcoh - it took away the flexibility to do duty swaps, particularly for long distance commuters like me i.e. I sometimes did an afternoon duty then slept at the tower and did the following morning as it saved travelling up and down the A303/M3.
I was told years ago theat one particular ANSP always required it's controllers to work more than rostered SRATCOH compliant hours and 'covered' themselves by insisting they fill in a 'modification' form every shift; wonder if SRG ever twigged and took any action.