Sorry said I wasn't going to respond to inaccuracies on here anymore but Beagle if you are going to quote examples please chose relevant ones, Wellesbourne Mountford is operated by FISOs, and as such they cannot issue any control instructions to ac in the air....pretty difficult to over control in those circumstances.
And if you want to see " so called busy Mil ATCO's" feel free to PM me and if you are interested i will try to arrange a visit to where I work, with a bit of factual information you might even change your mind about how busy we actually are at some units even in todays Air Force.
Yes Mil ATC utilises Sim training, even for the visual part of the course.....just like the civil world does.
A six week course.... MJ, looks like "the lads" have been feeding you more duff gen
Carry on guys, you really are making me chuckle.
Moli