Why does a small aerodrome as Redhill need ATC? Is the traffic level that high or complex? It’s in the LGW CTR but could this not be effectively managed with a LOA and AIP published operating procedures?

'Cos the CAA said they had to same as they did at Wycombe.

[QUOTE=chevvron;11230473]Most likely Redhill; maybe but probably wrong, the current staffing at Gatwick is, well let’s use the term interesting!!

Now is the time to challenge it and get SARG to justify their reasoning/logic? From recent experience with SARG this could be an interesting exercise with a justifiable response not forthcoming.

How come White Waltham get away with a LFA and A/G within the LHR CTR?

[QUOTE=Nimmer;11230571]ANS are thinking of bidding for ATC services at a remote location ie remote tower etc but I can't tell you where.

SARG are entitled to require any level of service to be provided at any location (it's written in CAP 670); I don't know what criteria they apply but when I suggested a 'relaxation' of their rules to allow a form of 'land after' at a sometimes busy FISO location providing certain criteria were satisfied (so as to allow more flexible use of runway occupancy rather than have an unnecessary go around), I was told 'if your airfield is that busy, maybe we should look at upgrading you to ATC'.
So I shut up.

Think that sums up what we now have to deal with, ie the level of expertise/experience that is prevalent in SARG plus the low staff levels whereby they invariably just do not have time to get into discussions to improve day to day service provision.

We in the industry are expected to adopt a continuous improvement culture, from what I see it is rarely evident in SARG unless they are pushed or forced into it.

While not having a 100% success rate I’ve experienced far more wins than losses when challenging what was “The Authority”, either directly or indirectly.

[QUOTE=chevvron;11230606]however ANS don’t have the Gatwick contract anymore!!

[QUOTE=Nimmer;11230629]Sorry I'm a bit out of touch; I'm still marvelling at NATS getting the contract for St Athan, so who's got it now then?

[QUOTE=chevvron;11230669]ANS until October, then NATS are back! Meet the new boss…same as the old boss…

Instructor job going with Micronav (ATC simulator supplier) in Bournemouth. Sounds like an interesting job in a nice part of the country

https://www.micronav.co.uk/job-vacancies/instructor/

[QUOTE=Packer27L;11230701]Well its not actually NATS, but the subsidiary company NATS SOLUTIONS. Different T&C’s. Hence students at the college can’t be posted, but have to be ask if they are happy to leave NATS. (For the record, they weren’t ).

the staffing shortfall continues.

SERCO looking for ATCOs for Dubai DXB (Tower) and Dubai DWC (Approach)

https://careers.serco.com/ME/job/Dub...uba/517938202/

https://careers.serco.com/ME/job/Dub...uba/517938302/

No problem at all 🙂

Slight thread drift but maybe of interest to some...

Some years ago - probably 20+ now - CAA SRG did research to try to determine metrics for where different levels of ATS were appropriate. They spent quite a lot of money with some external company as I recall, and the results were of little use, mainly because whatever the quantitative results that might be generated by the by the algorithms were said to have huge error bounds because of the variability of the subject. After that, there was some work done internally, using some of the ideas from the external study (perhaps to justify its cost), on an Excel spreadsheet - taking some of the variables such as total movements, busiest day, busiest hour, complexity (number of runways and taxiways), proximity of local airports and others which escape me after all this time - and applying factors to each element to try to rank all UK airports (above a certain size) to see whether there were any outliers in the data, unexpected FIS units amongst all the ATC units, for example. Again, not much of value came of it. Ultimately, the conclusion was that professional judgement was the best approach....although the judgement was to be that of the CAA inspectors - whether these were the best professionals I'll leave to you to decide.

All of this work was done around the time that formal requirements were being introduced for ATC, and to a lesser extent, FIS units - in reality, the work was driven by the introduction of these rules in order to justify their introduction - which made running either ATC or FIS a lot more involved (and arguably while offering no tangible benefits) and, certainly for smaller airports, way more expensive.

ATC instructor job in Saudi with BAE. Accommodation, expat package etc.

https://baesystems.taleo.net/careers...urope%2FLondon

SERCO looking for a dual rated (ADI/APS) ATCO for Hawarden

https://careers.serco.com/UK/job/Bro...0DR/747218102/

I understand that Bahrain ACC is hiring. Does anybody have a contact email address?

Any contacts in the ME for Tower jobs would be greatly appreciated if it could be sent via PM.

Does anybody have general package ideas for Hamad, AUH, DWC, Bahrain, DXB etc?

FSP

I Would be quite interested to know too for DXB as well as what form the APC takes these days if anyone has any info.