. - If a trainee fails to validate at a unit because they are not good enough, then do not back pay them for non productive years when they eventually do validate somewhere.
Hear Hear
This alone would save millions, it is an absolute scandal that NATS rewards failure with a big 'bonus'. As you rightly pointed out, what benefit is there to validate in quick time? Yet we all know people who have had tens of thousands of pounds in backpay because they failed at one unit then validated at another.
