Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
. Perhaps the remarks
ATC Watcher detests so much were no longer there when I read it..
Indeed most of the nasty racial ones are no longer visible but the dammage is done .
The Atlas 767 death dive was caused by an individual holding a post without the required proficiency. Arguably it was insufficient resilience in the training system which failed to prioritize merit against commercial and social pressures
On the profieciency an training , that is indeed the issue: What I would love to know is if the idea of letting aircraft line up and depart when another is 3 Miles out is a deviation of normal procedures in AUS ( as the SW response to the clearance could indicate) of just that perticular controller own procedure, and if it was , was it the first time he did this or he did this since a long time and went unhallenged by his peers?. Controllers, just like Piots very rarely work alone.