Big Nose1:
Don't understand your response.
1. The mentor boxes were designed and made for LACC but until such time as actual mentors start using them for real how can you evaluate them fully (i.e. not in the cool and calm of a workshop)? Now its been determined that this design is NOT very good and we now have a very good case to argue.
2. "So headsets and mentor boxes only work if we don`t use them....fantastic."
??? I'm sure you've experienced lose wires in headsets before. Your response is rather facile, I don't believe you let your car sit in your garage all day because when you use it it wears it out and needs servicing etc.
3. "Perish the thought that the operational staff would have any say in the matter."
Is it the operational staff who prepare and argue for Investment Proposals? No. What I said was this is ammunition to get the NATS management to spend the money. There are 100's of things the operational staff want changing (different things for different watches and people) but we're only given so much money.
4. "one of the fundemental principles of the NERC operation can be overided by ignoring it!!!"
Did I say that? I'm sure I said that you can make background = foreground if you want to see all the background tracks.
Anyway why are you 'having a go' at me? I'm trying to inform you how things are going and whats being done on the operational staff's behalf. I'm sorry that we have no magic wand to wave and 'fix' everything that is perceived to need it, but this is life. Also responses like yours do not motivate people to do the very best job they can on your behalf, in fact it reduces co-operation.