Dick also worthy of mention again is that there is no staff to run these flight watch frequencies when they are retained. ATC doing the full flight watch function is already occurring Do a quick notam search and you will find one that lists all of the flight watch VHFs as not available due staff shortage. This notam has been out for many weeks now. AsA really have ballsed this one up and someone MUST be held accountable for it. The gave VR a while ago and by stealth have pushed the function onto ATC due staff shortage.
So when/if AsA do as they are told they will just roll back to what we do now which is provide flight watch from ATC positions which is what this whole thing is trying to stop. Wouldn't this be illegal industrially? Making a person redundant when a requirement for their position still exists and there is noone else to do it? Hopefully you can do something about that as well.