Originally Posted by Heathrow Director
MPN11... Have you heard of Spud recently? I used to see him a lot about 10 years ago but lost touch. He used to spend a lot of time in Cyprus.
No, not for a few decades, I regret. Being a 'mobile' Mil controller, it's always difficult to hold on to contacts.
I just have these abiding memories of him being the nicest ATCO at SATCC when I was there as an ATCA IV, and then a decade or so later in the mid-70s working alongside him on the Sectors at LATCC when I was a Mil ATCO is SEJAO.
I would chuck him a pink crossing strip, which would come back with "GOOMFW" written on it. That told me [do you need a translation?] I should "Take 5" because he was
really too busy to allocate a level. Not sure that was in the LATCC MATS, but it made complete sense to us.
Lovely man, and one of my fondest memories of ATCOs.