Lodown
Thanks for this
'The focus of the board and the executive has been on the core business...air traffic control.'
Had a good chuckle, though events seem to show otherwise.
When you have a trainee controller who is struggling, one of the things they tend to do is put off solving the harder conflictions and do what they are comfortable doing.
You need to get them to focus on the hard things and use their time wisely to do the time critical actions first and leave the easier chores they are comfortable with til second.
After about 18 months in the job Greg Russell stated that when he arrived the financial aspects of ASA were the critical area and that he had put his major efforts into sorting these out. Our core business is ATC and ARFF, I'm not sure what has gone on in the ARFF, but ATC staffing, recruitment and training has definitely NOT been on the agenda.
It is well over a couple of years since most ATC have had any simulator emergency training, the College has been gutted, and good luck if you can find the 95 trainees that are supposed to be riding to the rescue this year.
Latest from Civilair website today 2 more VR in Sydney today, one early retirement in a week, one more resignation to work OS.