Thankyou all for your prompt responses. I guess the software bods will escape the slapping this time. The kit is bank limiting at around 25º which is giving a rate of 1.78 º/sec at FL140. This is going to cause a ruction or two amongst some of the more Luddite of teh ATC bretheren around here, but I think it about time they were dragged into the 21st century [or the 20th at least]
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NATS mate.
www.nats.co.uk. Check out the ATC forum on this here site, and see how much we all like working here.
Technology wise, from state of the art, to state of the ark. The simulators all run on SOLARIS boxes and PCs. We just gutted most of our R&D capacity, so I don't know what the hiring situation is at the moment, but it sounds like it can't be any worse than what you currently do.