Night Watch,
I hear you - all alone up there at night at not allowed to go direct (by many, not all!).
I will let you in on the concern shared by most - it is not necessarily that you might put a couple close together when direct tracking was involved, it is more a case of if
anything happens which requires paperwork.
e.g. You inadvertently dial a wrong number up on the freuqncy transfer, forget to call, and think nothing of the silence (don't worry, it has been done many times!). You only realise after you have been cruising along for 90 minutes that you are top of descent and nobody has given it to you yet - oops!
In the meantime, we have been watching (for those lucky enough to have RADAR) you trundle along in a perfectly straight line. Even the supervisor has commented on the cleared route as he takes down the details, but says nothing more. But all is OK when you pop up again, right?
That is until the paperwork goes in, just a friendly phone call to the company perhaps. But somebody's ears prick up out the back, and they ask you "just out of interest, why was he tracking direct SY?" "umm...." They decide to take it further, and if it's not your first indiscretion, well .... who knows. They have started making a big deal about this.
And nothing here was to do with you tracking direct....
