ZFT,
Thank you for expanding on my query. As an operational ATCO, I can't help but forsee all sorts of problems in our respective day-to-day environments. RT loading is high enough - and stressful enough - already. I don't need to spell out what this will inevitably mean! On paper, the MPL does seem a reasonable way of fast tracking folks to fill places that need filling, but I can't help but think that it is nothing but a short term solution which will have repercussions later on, perhaps when it is too late. I don't want to be reading the subsequent incident reports.