Maybe I have just got used to GA r/t over the years but I reckon there has been a marked improvement in the content and delivery this year. Still a number of time wasters but on the whole it is improving and I have thanked pilots on many occasion this year for good r/t
We always remember the bad incidents allowing the good, proficient ones to melt into history.
FragRad is correct in what he says but I would add that we regularly split the freqs when it starts to get busy and this year have often utilised a third person overseeing the other two and handling phone calls.
All ATSOCA units are liable to get overloaded at times, we cannot put on restrictions as the airways sectors do if demand seems to high. Not a bad idea though
slots out of Popham to do a thirty minute local. You pilots wouldn't mind, would you?