Two thirds of ATC errors are made when we are quiet, it's when people let their guard down.
Teaching me to suck eggs?
Believe it or not I did Air Traffic Control, in particular 15.25 hour nightshifts, and one particular nightshift, at some unearthly hour of the morning, myself and and the controller, who I kicked from him pit, handled what became a "Mayday" situation when he should have been asleep and I should have been sitting with my feet up supping coffee
I'd been sitting there, hour after hour, by my lonesome, trying to stay awake but as soon as Chivenor and PDQ afterwards the chopper called I was on to it, headset on talking to the aircraft whilst with one outstretched foot kicking on the ATIS room door to the effect "Sir, get out of your pit ..... PLEASE".
So please don't try and preach to me that Cambridge is dangerous because it's too quiet, I've been there, done that, and I've got the tee shirt
