Originally Posted by
chevvron
I'm rather sad that you have that opinion about my successors and/or ex colleagues and puzzled that under TS you weren't warned of the traffic.
I can only assume that LARS West was bandboxed with approach (something which I always opposed because it was so difficult to predict when you would need to split the frequencies and have an extra controller standing by) and the workload got too high. In such a case, the controller gives priority to Farnborough arrivals and departures, but that's no excuse, the Watch Manager or Senior Controller on Duty should have been there to assist.
I don't recall West being bandboxed with Approach and the report makes no mention of it, suggesting the opposite.
The report does criticise me for not reporting the Airprox on the RT, but to be honest, I'd lost interest in them by then and just wanted to get off their frequency. I did report it online promptly, but the report says that the ATCO has no recollection. Convenient.