Atcos are boring - Official!!
 

Air traffic controllers are "very boring", what they do is "simple" and they're "nerdy anoracks" - so says David Learmount in The Mail on Sunday.

Don't disagree with him as such, however, I don't recall him mentioning any of this when he's been writing for the dear old Management organ (Pulse Online), over the past few months.......
Never mind, perhaps he'll tell us directly next month.

Link (hopefully) below

Volcanic ash at 10 o'clock: The world's most stressful job - inside the control tower at Heathrow Airport | Mail Online

Pretty rich, coming from Mr Learmouth. In that case, perhaps he would like to reconsider his position in respect of writing for the NATS company rag.

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If that gent had spent sometime with me whilst I was working he certainly wouldn't have called it "boring". What a prize dope!

Anyone know if he has ever held a responsible job, or has he been a journo all his life?

I would take it as a great compliment that old Learmouth is knocking you guys. He must be jealous. ;)

Indeed, pretty rich, coming from one of 'Grub Street's' scribblers who is at the lower end of the 'Hall of Shame', being merely a technical journalist.

Cheers:ok:

Ah, yawn, ah, what 'he say?.................

So what?





ATCOs do apathy as well...





when we can be bothered...

Interesting article This is a crisis I wonder what basis he makes that statement on?


Actual info on Liarmouth's professional qualifications are very difficult to find. It's almost as though his career has been sanitised. Seems eminently qualified for a member of the new British government

Ex RAF C-130 co-pilot. Would that account for his right wing outlook? :ok:

<<Ex RAF C-130 co-pilot>>

'nuff said.

The best in Britain!!

Years ago, a piece in "Flight" entitled "Peace at last(? possibly Pieces)", by Mr. Learmount IIRC, about how good UK Controllers were.

The truth will out, as they say.

I think he meant 'boring' in the sense of 'cool headed' rather than intending anything derogatory :hmm:

That ATCOs know more about aeroplane and aviation than him......:ok:
Sorry, ATSAs too

Nerdy anoraks??? The cheek of the man.

I have a good mind to introduce a resolution at the next meeting of the ATCO chapter of the Star Trek fan club, demanding a strongly-worded letter (in Klingon) be sent to Mr Learmount. I suggest members of the ATCO chapters of the B5 and BSG fan clubs do the same. Maybe have a competition to see which letter arrives first, thus also settling the argument over the relative speediness of warp drive, hyperspace and FTL drive technology. :}

Learmount really nails it with this gem:

....."probably the worst (controllers) aren't the Spanish or the French but the Americans,' claims a former pilot. They all talk like characters in that Seventies CB radio movie Convoy."

Well, out of the 30 busiest airports per aircraft movement, 21 of them are in the States! His beloved LHR is ranked 13th.

He's clueless.

It is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt..............over to you David.......

I wonder if Learmount is aware there are airports other than Heathrow - maybe it's just Heathrow controllers he finds boring.