G-EMMA
Thanks for your response - as someone who has a psychology background, I still believe that your view of ATC would be influenced by rather more life experience, even though you may not realise this ;-)
Good luck with the rest of your PPL and I hope that Stebbing is not too saturated after all the rain I see the BBC reporting.
Fireflybob
Interesting point about spare capacity - didn't an Avianca 707 run out of gas at NYC?
How did 3 commercial flight deck get into that position?
I do understand why you feel the need to stand next to the controller, so that you can intervene if necessary. I would have appreciated that when flying solo for the first few times
I guess that the bottom line is that we all take a risk when we fly and if the holes line up, we pay the piper.
Sad when it happens at 16 though.