Originally Posted by
Herod
Anyone who thinks being a controller at Heathrow is easy clearly has never flown into there as operating crew. I have, many times, and I take my hat off to them.
Hear hear! Had what appeared to be an engine fire one night on the way in there. (Actually one bit of the engine grinding away another)
Bas: "Mayday etc."
ATC immediately: "Basair *** heading 240 cleared ILS 27L, break break, LU123 go around climb . . . ."
Bas: Thinks 'How did he know in advance I was going to say that?'
Much more recently walking around Swanwick and was surprised by how dramatically the workload increased as a line of bad weather swept across.