Once upon a time there was a unit that had Aerodrome, Approach Radar, AND Area controllers. They all worked on the same watches, knew, and socialised with one another. Unsurprisingly this worked really well and the understanding of one anothers problems meant that morale was very good. Unfortunately this is all being changed and the Area people will be moved away from the airfield functions. Strange eh?
And before anybody gets steam up about the various 'moving to Scotland' arguments. I'm an ADC and Approach RAD guy who is just surprised that the TC concept was totally binned in the Manchester situation as, to a small degree, we'd always had it!
Last edited by Spiney Norman; 1st Jun 2008 at 10:14.