what more would one need...
 

Marie, Suzy,Marilyn, Jules,Sue etc...'dream,dream,dream' (remember the Everly Brothers?):O

Brian, you're just an old letch....... :hmm:

What more could you want?

"Trolley" :)

I've just hand a very nostalgic time reading all these posts and looking at the photos. Does anyone know if there was ever a digital copy made of the video "In safe Hands"?.
I know it was shown at CATC for many years, I think even after APC moved to LATCC because the radar procedures didn't really change.

Would that be the video produced by a certain EGLL ATCO, AD? Soundtrack 'PURE' by the Lightning Seeds?

I'd love to see the above video again, in fact I'd pay money to watch this again.

Better still, how about youtube?

No, I remember that one as well, but the one that I am referring to was made in the late eighties (I think), long before AD arrived on the scene.

Several of the "stars" of this video climbed the managerial ladder and probably getting pretty close to retirement.

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Is this the AD one you were referring to? If so free of charge!!!

No, the film to which I refer was produced, directed and edited by AD. A short video about being an ATCO at EGLL, soundtrack PURE by THE LIGHTNING SEEDS. Not broadcast on on network TV, but shown at the CATC when AD came to visit.

That's an old video, so I'm sure it has been remarked on before, but I still love the part at around 2:55 showing simultaneous easterly landings and westerly takeoffs. :O

What? you mean they no longer do opposite direction calibrations during the day?
Sporting wasn't the word.:ok:

Great fun, eh, M?

They now need 15 mile gaps for runway inspections too...no sport in that!

There is when Checker needs to do an on/off to check FOD/light fitting etc and nobody knows how to do it! :eek::E

You'll be telling us next you don't have BBQs on the roof A!

Not after the last one which nearly burned a hole through the roof!:oh:

Due to Brendan's extra large sausage!

Or the fire risk from his 3ft long cardboard bow tie!

"busiest international airspace in the world"??? :hmm:

It's a rather vaguely worded claim, but I would suspect that in terms of the numbers of international aircraft movements (departures, arrivals and overflights) the airspace above Heathrow (or rather above SE England in general) is among the busiest in the world (around 5000 flights per day, I believe).

I wonder what the numbers are for a similar size sample of airspace over the NY area. :8