HEATHROW DIRECTOR
Once again a very valid point. The Ostrich approach is always a NATS management favourite when it comes to comms. failure from the ATC end. Mind you, it'd wake those sleepy Tels boys up, eh?!
However, for anyone to even insinuate that cutting out RT, let alone RT fail, is not an avaition safety issue is both careless and, shall we say, lacking in any kind of appreciation of what we're all trying to do. If the bit that is missed from the transmission is a heading or level that is safety critical (as most are) or even avoiding action well God alone knows what might happen. It's about time these very well paid directors got their £2000 suits out of their meetings and actually got a working knowledge of ATC, or even any kind of avaition related subject, before they pontificate on what is correct and what is not. We don't tell Dicky Everitt who makes the most comfy cashmere socks, please don't tell us what is and isn't safe.
