Hi Heathrow director.
I have to say the Waltham system generally works very well. There are a couple of glitches every now and then but lookout is generally very good. Elstree has its problems, and putting a "partially" trained controller sometimes creates more difficulty than it solves. By putting a control at WW would cock the traffic flow up altogether, increase ground delays and up the cost of flying. Have a look at some of the local fields (with control) around London on a busy sunday and see how much avgas is burned by aircraft at the hold. As well as the odd freyed temper in Pilot controller "discussions".
Let us keep control out of GA as much as possible. As long as pilots maintain the good standards I normally see then there would be no need for it. then of course all of the AFISO's could train as full cat controllers and cut the workload at West Drayton (but that is another topic)
regards
Wide
