Chilli
Yes we all know what management should do to solve the root problem but until the CAA determines the numbers required to sustain a particular operation, as they do for the RFFS then NOTHING will ever change. I am sure many years ago when the engineer was dropped from the flight deck people cried foul, but it didn't stop them going, because the technology had changed and was deemed (quite rightly) not to be a safety issue.
The ATM , under stringently laid down procedures, could be used safely.
Nudging Steel, movements are restricted during LVP's so what’s the difference? What I am saying or proposing if you like is that procedures are looked at and changed where possible and blanket refusals are a thing of the past.
At the end of the day we all know the "profession” is under threat from improvements in technology, we either adapt or get replaced by something that doesn't need, breaks, pensions, salaries etc
This is not about the erosion of safety after all was it considered unsafe to do away with the need for an approach procedural ticket at certain units? No
Of course it wasn't.