Originally Posted by
ATCO Two
Dear NATS Colleagues, please cast your minds back to when NATS went through the exercise of placing Units into the various Bands that we have now. Obviously traffic movements was one driver, but how about complexity? How was this determined? Was there much fine tuning of the Bands after they were first established. Many thanks for any input.
In my case (Farnbrorough) complexity was thrown of the window; NATS (with the agreement of Prospect)
only took account of airport traffic levels and the complexities of operating intensive IFR movements in class G airspace in a LARS environment and totally disregarded the intensive traffic levels generated by LARS traffic level which was mixing intensive IFR arrivals and departures with high levels of Class G transit traffic.
Our own Prospect rep was horrified when his own views were disregarded in this situation and immediately objected to the findings, only to be told that the decision had been made at a 'higher level than himself and there 'might' be a review after about 5 years.