London Mil: There have been some line faults, but the vast majority of it has been faults and repairs at the unit (one month saw us operate non-radar on 15 days). And, unlike Waddington, we are not allowed to operate on SSR only, so a primary failure takes everything away from us. On the plus side, the company has come to realise the down sides of remote radars provided by the military, and are now installing a primary radar on site, and switching to a NATS source for SSR data, but that will all take time. Had this been done in the first place.....
Hindsight and ATC... A marvellous thing... If only they had the excuse that they hadn't been told what would happen!
