IO540 wrote...
It would be possible for smaller GA airfields to have a radar feed too. I bet it would be handy. Easily delivered over the internet. In this case, the anally retentive rules about ATCO pay grades / qualifications prevent this being provided to a non radar qualified ATCO; of course a radar qualified ATCO gets paid more so if it was provided to one of the "lesser" grades there would likely be objections from the ATC unions.
Gawd, you do love banging on about our unions and the like don't you
Yet again you are way off the mark, it's got nothing to do with them!
We work under a harmonised European ATC licence, who can do what is decided at a European level not by some NATS union atcos sitting round a table in a smoke filled room drinking beer and eating sandwiches. Go and look at
CAP744 and then get on your hobby horse to Europe whilst at the same time getting off the one that's always going on about NATS trade unions.
Improved radar services outside CAS in the SE is on NATS agenda...