Originally Posted by
ORAC
Standards and experience have obviously gone through the floor.
I left ATC in 2003. Standards were high, experience was pretty good but there just wasn't enough people to do all that was required. It was clear to me back then that we were getting asked to do more and more, with less and less.
I worked some of the busiest airspace around, and with a full team it worked like a charm, band-box just one position and it could go very wrong very quickly.
Reading some of the other airprox reports have a look at how many say the controllers on task were at capacity and having to multi-task.