Originally Posted by
chevvron
Ah sorry; in my day Eastern only had one control position for the North Sea sector on a shared frequency with Northern (got a vague recollection that was weekdays only but may be wrong), so what was the other console for?
Sorry, not that intimately acquainted with their working procedures. Possibly split E/W traffic, but that's only a guess - someone here must know the answer.
(I was ERD Jun 70-Sep 73 & Oct 76-Sep 78)
Greetings to fellow Mil SEJAO controllers (Sep 73-Dec 74 only, before being posted to HQ MATO)
I was apparently the first to be pushed straight into SEJAO after a few weeks getting an AC(L) endorsement in the MAS room, on the basis of my 4+ years experience at ERD. A most interesting and stimulating environment, with (IIRC) only one major cock-up on my part!
When producing estimates for Mil crossings, one quickly learned that an F-4/F-111 took 5 minutes to cover the length of a chinagraph pencil on the flat-top displays
