If the chap is applying to NATS then, if succesful, he will end up as an ATCO. Sitting with an A/G op at a tiny airfield will not be of much benefit.

I've never heard of LITAS!

Low Intensity Two colour Approach System Bren, showed green for 'on GP' and red for 'below GP'.
We were taught about it on our aerodrome course (it was still in the 'Air Pilot' too as far as I recall) back in '72, and told the last ones had just been withdrawn. I think it was used as a cheap system on smaller airfields prior to VASIs, which were in turn replaced by PAPIs.

Ahh.. many thanks T.

Ask about Snowsods.....they're about the right vintage from last century....or perhaps FIDO?...even older.

Paper flight progress strips... felt-tip pens....

The Tapley Meter.

Same vintage as LITAS was AAI (Angle of Approach Indicator) but even I can't remember how that worked, although I did see one on Peter Cadbury's airfield at Preston Candover (now long gone)!
OK then, from the 'Manual of Air Traffic Control' (no not 'MATS Part 1), define 'slush'.

Without even looking..
SLUSH. - A water-saturated snow, which with a heel-and-toe slap down action with the foot against the ground, will be displaced with a splatter.
Sorry Chevvron, that's MATS Pt1.
……Dashes upstairs to consult MATC Pt.1, (which also contains some Preston procedures too). :ok:

Sadly, the SI dealing with Reporting Of Snow And Ice is missing.
The last amendment was 1973.

From the days when you needed a good 'Radio Voice'....
Or Morse Code at 25wpm.


Position report 1950s style - video

Don't have access to MATS Pt1 as I'm not at work, but doesn't it say 'displaced sideways with a splatter'?

Why would you need MATS Pt1 at an AFIS unit? Everything you would need is in CAP797...

chevvron,
Just checked out the latest CAP493, and the 'direction of splatter' is not specified.
Still never found the ICAO definition of 'a splatter' though.

P.S. The EGCC Tapley Meter is right here, in my kitchen. Oh, and Mr. Tapley still makes them…….And they look the same.

Freddies, ignore all this banter. It won't be part of your assessment.

TDM: mystery to me too but after a CAA inspection a few years back it was 'required'.

The numbers in the AIP should be to either an assistant or a supervisor, the operational positions normally don't have published numbers.

That being said, should you call somebody who is too busy they will tell you so, in other words I wouldn't worry about it.

Memories
 

I still have my chinagraph pencil for writing on the radar screen !!