@ Clicker
yea pretty normal. Used to be one controller and one assistant in the radar room at night. Kinloss had the same (one tower / one assistant).
@AIDU
no the other controller that said she was just doing her job is telling the truth. She was handed a difficult situation but her training got her through. She wouldn't have been allowed to do a night shift if she wasn't properly trained to do APP/DIR
The drama of the article makes it out to be more heroic than it probably was.
And i doubt she'd be
just out of training
She would probably have done Gnd, PAR, Deps then App/Dir, so probably been at Lossie for a good 6 months at least.
And i don't think it really is in the same league as somebody risking their own life for someone else.