Christopher James
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Antigua, I support your actions and thank you for a debate that can only further safety. We need to get back on the flight decks.
CJ
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Thank you CJ
Nearly one hundred postings. A few backs up, which means to me that my original intention of kick starting the debate worked wonders.
'Expeditedescent' hope you have calmed down. The piece of paper you circulated around LATCC appears to be my official response to the original MOR. It seems my Flight Manager, a very nice and switched on chap ('only' a First Officer too - would that happen at NATS? Or is it still 'Buggins Turn' there?), passed it on to you verbatim. I guess that is a vote of confidence in me! It was no more
or less confidential than the original MOR, and like the MOR, no doubt, contained my name. So please don't get stroppy about that. It was also factual. I HAVE done go-arounds due to lack of spacing. If you find that too difficult to swallow, then I'm sorry. See my previous posting about the dangers in this game of thinking you are beyond critisism.
Hopefully I wiil get to meet the controller concerned, and he can criticise me all he likes, as long as he lets me buy him a beer.
NOW, CJ, sorry to stray again. You say.
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We need to get back on the flight decks.
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..........indeed! What's stopping you? Here's another 'Did You Know?'
DYK that you are still welcome on our flight decks. The extract below is from a recent missive from our Supreme Leader. However the policy NEVER changed, even after 9/11.
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FAMILIARISATION FLIGHTS
The financial constraints on our business and the security situation following 11th September have compelled us to review our policy towards familiarisation flights for non-British Airways employees.
Although in the past we have taken a relatively generous attitude to requests for people such as Air Training Corps cadets or serving personnel in the Armed Forces to experience a flight with us, there is a measurable cost associated with these tickets. In the present climate, we need to preserve every penny we can. Accordingly the General Management team has decided that we can only justify these tickets for our own trainee pilots as part of their curriculum or for Air Traffic Control Officers as part of the long-standing liaison programme.
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So .......... from our point of view, there is nothing stopping you. Not EVEN our bean-counters. If you have been told anything different, I would suspect your own bean-counters!! Not a totally suprising thought to the average ATCO, I think.
Kind Regards to all our readers......
ANTIGUA
