Originally Posted by
The Many Tentacles
For occasionally, read never, especially in London en-route. I don't know if they do at Scottish and I know they do it in Ireland, but not for London
Used to up until Feb 1971; the procedural contoller was at West Drayton and the radar controller was at Heathrow (north side where Compass Centre now stands) then we moved into the new control room at Drayton. I was on the last watch on the 'old' system. We closed down the radar unit at Heathrow after the evenng watch took over, then next morning we took over from them at West Drayton.
It was the old 4 watch system in those days where you did an afternoon then a morning, then a 12 hour night watch the same day ie A-M-N-sleep-day off over 4 days then repeated.