It looks like I should go and get an IT job for which there is no height limit, and forget any dreams or aspirations of a career in aviation
Seems a pity to let NATS off so lightly especially since work in the IT industry will expose you to exactly the same physical geometry problems when using display equipment.
The only place where NATS has made a major recent change in equipment is at the new Swanwick centre. Controllers of all sizes posted there from West Drayton had spent years bent over horizontal radar displays without any major outbreak in health problems.
Perhaps some person who works at London Terminal Control could tell us what the height is from the floor to the top of their displays.........Only viewed them from the viewing balcony but it appeared (as it does in most promotional photos) that many average sized people were leaning forward and looking upwards to see the screen.....ouch!!!....how bad is that for one's neck and spine!!!!.........Years back visited scottish ACC on a liasion visit and noted that controllers had to stretch a long way on a frequent basis to push buttons above the radar display......again not very good..........and all problems that you would not have.
If NATS are so sure that you can not operate simple display and related equipment without possible detriment to your health then it would be fair to say that many other areas of work are also going to have the same effect which would leave very few positions available to you and thus you would almost be in a position to claim disability benifit. You need to find out the exact details of who did the test, who set the limits and what those limits are based on.
If you check out the tall persons club of GB, you will find that at least one member is currently employed by NATS in an enroute ATC position at Swanwick and using the very same displays that NATS say are unsafe for you to use. I am sure that the term "double standards" will be used by some legal eagle either on your behalf or on their behalf when they make a claim.
Perhaps you need to use that motivation more.
Regards,
DFC