Pirate,
Civil Airs (dismissive?) statement was that the old retired ATCs could simply turn up an start work - and that was where my statement was directed.
You are taking things in another direction with using ATC Failures and the medically unfit.
Why are they undergoing LOEQ? - performance issues perhaps? gee, that's nice, dump 'em into someone elses lap to sort out? someone say "MR BEAN"
They possibly could be used but they would certainly have to undergo training and assessment the same as any other operational staff.
Ausfic staff are multi-position capable and utilise knowledge from more than one area to perform any particular specific function. There really is no such thing as "simply doing VHF" I'm told.
Depending on their level of knowledge (how long they been training for?), and given that even most long term ATC know stuff all about ausfic and its services (or even where ausfic is by most accounts) and it would certainly not happen overnight.
All this is a moot point really beacuse Dick has swallowed Airservice's filibustering and taken home a cur from the pound.
Last edited by JackoSchitt; 16th Nov 2007 at 09:40.