Originally Posted by
TCAS FAN
When I was a lad we had ASD & ATSD staff who had considerable experience in the field that they were regulating, ie former pilots, navigators, controllers, airport operations staff etc. With you all the way 2 sheds, Presumably qualifications and experience is one thing that the CAA business model cannot afford?
Absolutely correct! You have to remember, though, that these days you have to consider what to do with the products of the "Graduate Trainee Programmes" they have to be employed somewhere, plus all the quotas that have to be filled and boxes ticked - "Equality"; "Diversity"; "Disabilities". These are all cheaper to employ than former pilots, navigators, controllers, airport operations staff, who would be considered as a bolshie lot anyway. Perhaps the answer to solve the problems is to engage a number of the latest panacea for failed management, "Human Factors people". For the uninitiated these are re-packaged "Human Resources" who in turn were formally called "Personnel Officers".
