You only have to read some of the vitriolic comments and personal attacks here to see how whistleblowers are treated - I don't blame him one bit for waiting until he had retired. You can see from this thread how he would have been treated if he'd spoken out publically while still employed !
Rubbish. If he had spoken out while he was employed then he would have done as he was expected to do by both management and his fellow controllers. I have no problem speaking out if i feel saftey has been comprimised and this is encouraged. If no-one speaks out then saftey will never improve.
What people are objecting to is the way he has taken the companies money, whilst quite happily using the procedures that he feels are so unsafe. Its not like he developed these opinions after he left the company, they had to be there while he was with NATS. If he'd spoken out, put reports in, while in the company they would have been investigated. He chose not to, and then ran to the BBC as a "whistleblower".