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You say "This is not a job that can be done part-time as a kind of hobby, nor should it be viewed as a source of pin-money[overtime]. In order to protect the integrity and high professional standards that are needed to move all the metal, the task should be left to the finely-honed close-knit team of highly-efficient experts. If one wants promotion and a desk job then one should burn the bridges and stick to one's desk"
This is an interesting statement which opens all kinds of issues.
1. What makes you think that promotion, or the lack of it, changes anybody's status as a "highly-efficient expert"? Indeed, one of the stated requirements of all recent ATCO1 promotion panels at NERC has been the retention (or acquisition and retention) of T/P qualifications.
2. You make no comment on the significant numbers of ATCO2s who are using the AAVA scheme "as a source of pin money". Both groups are equally laudable or blameworthy depending on your individual view of the use of overtime to keep the system running.
3. As regards the job being "done part-time as a kind of hobby", I think it should be made completely clear that all licensed controllers are subject to the same rules and standards. Or, perhaps, you are implying some flaws within the LCE scheme??? If you seriously believe that somebody is working without "high professional standards" then, regardless of their grade, you should make your concerns known through the correct channels.
Perhaps I detect just a hint of sour grapes, as you have neither been promoted, nor joined the AAVA gravy-train.
NN
ps apologies to the EGHH guys - I AM watching with interest