Some news (rumour, if you like)
A friend in the Swanwick Training and Development Unit (TDU) told me today that they have already done some simulation of SMOPs.
She pointed out one major snag though . To be realistic the simulations should really have been conducted in the early hours of the morning, preferably with the participants having already completed one shift the night before.
That way the HF people would at least have the correct data to assess and the participants would be able to report more realistically about how they "felt".
A safety case written around daytime sims is flawed. Wonder if the NATS safety empire have picked up on this yet?
Rgds BEX