Originally Posted by
confused atco
I assume that we are talking about radar gaps.
I believe our colleague was rather referring to
cognitive blind spots, ie. situations in which you perfectly manage a traffic conflict a few minutes ahead of time, but completely forget an immediate conflict involving the very same aircraft.
Here's an (oldish but still good) Skybrary article about it:
http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/38.pdf
Been there, done that...
