PS We realise you guys are busy because we tend to visit Swanwick now and again. How many times do radar folk visit the towers?
Not often enough - a lot of issue we have (rightly or wrongly) is no TOIL for doing it on a day off and not being released during rostered days, especially as our clawback days are often (and particulalry over the next 2 years) already earmarked and in fact demand for them is over the number we have to give back to the company due to various things that are coming soon.
I think that there is slightly less appreciation from all sides wrt colleagues working conditions/tasks/problems - exacerbated by the reduction in the college course length.
I know that on Sunday more info from the GS side of things may have helped you guys and reducced the phone calls from you (we appreciated the airlines badger you), but at the time, out of the 5 TC groups North, South, East, Midlands and Capital, we were running out of legal hours for personnel on 3 of them (5 mins to go) and getting close on the other 2 groups, so there was a lot of head scratching going on!! The weather seemed to catch us out a bit - we knew it was there - it had been threatening all afternoon, but had seemed to be static and did not move towards the TMA at all, then all of a sudden (it seemed like), it was upon us.
btw, Thanks to AC as well for taking some short notice (far from ideal) calls to hold out
. Hopefully LAS south passed on the message at the time, she was asked to but she and you were both still busy.