LARS unit workload and gliders
I had an interesting visit to a LARS unit on Monday and chatted to the ATC supervisor, having just watched him working the LARS frequency to cover for someone's break. Two things struck me:
1. He was very cam but VERY busy.
2. Gliders, non-transponding and non-communicating, are a big problem for him.
It did make me reassess my instinctive belief that gliders shouldn't be forced to have a transponder, though I did wonder if there's some way they could overlay FLARM data on the radar.