Whilst I agree anything that can be done to raise the profile (and salary)of Ops control staff,what about good old hands on experience.My fear is ,that companies will go for people who have the bits of paper,and ignore those of us who have been digging them out the **** for years.I have been through the all to common experience of watching a wizz kid with all the degrees licences bells and whistles,freeze ,when confronted with serious program disruption,caused by tech a/c or weather/atc/crew hours
problems.And who then gets the program back on its wheels???
well we all know the answer to that dont we.
I am not knocking the need for formal qualifications,but there needs to be a balance.
