Originally Posted by
helicopter-redeye
Wick have a notamed closure of the field/ATZ for the week due lack of controllers (this is a combined tower/approach with no radar). Perhaps everybody has been reassigned to support the bigger sites?
You can't just move controllers from airport to airport that are controlled by the same ANSP (edit to add........without them having to train and validate at that new unit), let alone someone from Wick (HIAL) to Glasgow (NATS).
Before someone could control 'solo' at Glasgow would probably take six months (I'm guessing here) of training, possibly more.