ViaEGLL wrote
Anotherthing- I have been at both as i said before !!!! Single rwy sleepy hollow and LL
Nice to see how you view other airports in the London TMA!! (The same airports that over the past few years have shown a significant increase in traffic levels both in their own right and compared to EGLL)
In my posts on this thread (from before it was split) I have never intimated that LL was less demanding than the other airports. I have stated that IMO from one aspect - the vectoring, it is less complex. You follow a standard track, the variable being the wind of the day. This is more regimented than the other airports. (I also stated that when something happens to upset that flow, bedlam ensues because of the other problems associated with your task).
The reason it is more regimented is because of all the other aspects of LL that make it more demanding (lack of airspace, number of A/C etc)..... It's the only efficient way LL APP can operate. It's some (sometimes all) of these aspects some trainees cannot get their heads around.
Unfortunately, some people (including ATCOs amazingly) cannot get their head around the fact that what makes an ATCOs job difficult and demanding is a combination of things - airspace restrictions, frequency restrictions, Number of A/C, Variation of types of A/C, Runways available etc.
Or are you trying to tell us that in all aspects of ATC, within the APP community, LL APP comes out as the most demanding in every variable?