Originally Posted by
langleybaston
IT systems don't do nuance.
Way back when Finningley was the Nav trainer, and I was the occasional Met. Lecturer, to see "Sgt Mac" [if memory serves] juggling real time problems of timetabling involving lecturers/ students/ classrooms/leave/sickness/detachments and flying programme interfaces armed with a whiteboard and pencil and paper was an education in itself.
The point isn't to let the IT system schedule. It's just a better scheduling board. But a bas one is definitely worse than the old board!