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Old 12th May 2005 | 18:08
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flower
 
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Why do people think that aviation is an area which should be open to the masses ?
Would you suggest we should have live feeds of teachers in their classrooms, Dr's in their surgeries, accountants in their offices.
I don't do my job for a spotters benefit I do it to provide an ATC service to aircraft.

BAW001 when the professionals involved i.e. ATCOs and Pilots don't want it there has to be a valid reason. Infact multiple reasons have been presented to you but you still don't see any harm in it.
The last thing we need is people with absolutely no Knowledge or even worse limited knowledge watching our every move, creating fear and apprehension amongst the flying public
as they simply have no real comprehension of how it all works.
We show people around ATC units and they find it terrifying and we are there to explain it, imagine if anyone could view it here.

There are so many reasons for it not to happen and I can think of no good reason for it to happen.

If you want to see how ATC works become an ATCO, now please accept what everyone has told you about how bad an idea it is for multiple reasons, not least the additional pressure it could place on ATCOs whilst they were working.
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