Framer, thanks for the recognition but Atcos like millions of other people, including pilots,
work during the day and during the night. I never heard of problems due to circadian cycles
in my time in the air and in Atc.
Was that some time ago? I seems fairly well accepted by operational people in both roles that mental cognition is degraded during circadian low now.
framer: If we fattened up the night shift to allow two controllers to work all night, we would lose one from the much busier times of the day which we already can't fully staff most days without copious overtime. If we can't staff the unit fully with what we do now, we're not going to get very close to adding one more on nights.
With the current system yes. What I was suggesting is upping the total numbers so that the workload is reduced. Ie hire more ATCO's.