Sorry for the thread hijack...
Spitoon, I agree with some of those points and 8 years ago when I joined LL it was still a case of 'if your face doesn't fit.....'
Despite what some people in NATS still believe LL is a millions miles different for the better now.
There are still perfectly capable trainees unnecessarily falling by the wayside
Sorry not LL, if they're good enough we'll pull out all the stops to get them valid, if they don't make the grade through only objective means, then NATS give them a posting to another unit. That seems pretty fair to me.
When we have an OR of 60 and only 48 valid controllers with 4 this year, myself included, leaving for DXB, and 3 retirements, getting trainees valid is a huge priority.
To be fair Spitoon I was just disappointed by your comment that we at LL focus on failiure and not success, couldn't be further from the truth and I just wonder what you base this on?