One has to ask is the problem with projects or with - dare I say it - Heathrow ATC
Germany are implementing Vaforit in their upper area ACC's, that is the Spanish system with a liberal sprinkling of Raytheon - very good apparently. The question I still have is how/when to replace TC. Do we do it after LACC, same time, before? After and TC will still be on Node/NAS in the middle of another FDP system, before - reverse, same time - EEK.
Ex EGLL - I totaLLY agree with you, current valid controllers on project teams BEFORE the engineering fait accompli (I bet I didn't spell that correctly but we are ATC so who cares
). There are FAR too many engineering solutions 'presented' and then the arguments start - 'what's wrong with it then, on;y cost £127,000,000 mate!