SPEKESOFTLY
Still just another number
posted 26th April 2002 08:53
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Question for Antigua please:-
Going right back to your very first post, which spawned this lively and very enlightening discussion - Did you in fact get the extra mile spacing that you asked for, or were you still spaced 2.5nm behind the preceeding aircraft?
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Reminds me of a joke. "Conductor!...... Is this bus going to Speke?"
" What do you think I am, gerl, a ventriloquist?"
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Mind you Speke's probably been nicked by now.
ANSWER : YES, thanks to the professionalism of the team at LATCC that day. Not that they're talking to me any more. Except via their lawyers. If they had left it at 2.5, I may have filed an ASR myself .
Seriously though folks....... it needs to be addressed by our bosses committees and their bosses committees. I don't know about the NATS side, but ours hide behind a risk-assessment model in these instances, which has been approved by the CAA.
This is what has happened since 'The Herald of Free Enterprise'.
Shifts the blame to the blokes at the sharp end when it all turns to sh 1 t. With a bit of luck they'll be dead by then, (Chinook/Scottish granite).
Or am I being cynical again?
ATB
ANTIGUA