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Old 4th Sep 2010, 07:08
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craka
 
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There was no disruption to the services..........

However with the constant aftershocks that the controllers were dealing with there were constant notifications (at least across OH & WN sectors) to be ready to revert to TIBA.

At one point whist enroute one controller said "all a/c please have TIBA pages out we have some strong after shocks and may have to evacuate the centre"

My thanks go out to you all who more or less did not skip a beat other than the old cleared 11,000 ..... ooo there goes another one...... QNH 1000. So well done and I hope your bosses appreciate the conditions you were operating under.

Yep eggs in one basket with the radar center being the only one available in the event of an evacuation. TIBA looks fairly basic and I was happy today the wx conditions were blue sky if TIBA were to be put into place.
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