Has anyone seen any of the actual plans for grouping of endorsements?
Personally I wouldn't write it off altogether! There may be some groupings that may be able to work! As an outright solution maybe not! There are great efficiency gains made in very busy airspace by being unconsciously competent (ie know the airspace and it's problems intimately) thereby planning to avoid problems earlier than the more reactive approach any general endorsement may imply.
We need to deal with facts!
By the way lets not get stuck into the journalists! There is no point! If we upset them by criticising them personally we will only get further bad reports. It is better to correct the errors but keep it impersonal! I'm sure there are days where we as controllers have taken the easier option over the more efficient one, that's human nature. When there is repeated cases, I'm sure someone will have a quiet word to us to pick up our game. That quiet word achieves more than a public confrontation!
Ozi.
