Privatized ATC, pros and cons

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We normally work:

Radar - hour on/hour off (except when it's busy on radar; even then it's rare to do more than 90 mins on/half hour off)

Tower - hour and a half on/forty-five minutes off (except when it's quiet; then it's hour about)

We can expect an early go at least twice a cycle (i.e. to leave the building an hour early - sometimes two hours early).

Our shift pattern (familiar to NATS folk) is MM, AA, NN, S, three days off. Shifts are:

Morning 0700-1400, Afternoon 1400-2200, Night 2200-0700 (there are some variations but I won't complicate matters).

To my mind, this roster is a bit of a doss. I'm sorry if that's an affront to some people, but in every other job I had I seemed to be in work a lot more than I am now. In fact, if I was offered a decent pay rise in return for working longer hours, I'd offer it serious consideration (in principle, at least).