Does this mean that the results of the working group on fonts and colours, etc. at Swanwick have not been made public? I would have expected that, in the face of such strong sentiments, the group would have circulated the options it considered and the reasons for and against them.
I know that the Human Factors Unit at ATMDC have been assertively 'educating' some of the members of the working group for a while now, and as a consequence NATS (including Everitt) knows EXACTLY what can and can't be done with the existing equipment. NATS also knows what the ideal solution is (if any such thing as an 'ideal solution' is possible).
Let's hope that projects such as FACTS and EPS do not suffer any unreasonable constraints/interference from those trying to cover their backsides, and are allowed to specify a system from both the software AND the hardware points of view.