Air Traffic System Failure

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Don't tell me....didn't ANY of your ALM's

- or whatever they call themselves -

OFFER to COME IN and RELIEVE the PRESSURE by ASSISTING 'on the floor'

by writing strips or 'getting details' or whatever youse guys/gals do these days,

when 'IT' all falls over....???

IF NOT...then SHAME SHAME SHAME.......(Apols to Derrin..)



Or, did the ' failure' occur outside their hours..?

[undervaluedATC]

When the system broke, it was all hands on deck (and it was illuminating to see how crowded the aisle could be when everybody was called into the room from out the back - not sure what would have happened had the failure occurred in the late evening/middle of the night.....)

Some ALMs were more help than others - much like the more experienced ATC's were more help to their colleages than the new guys (generally speaking).

An off-the-record conversation confirmed what I suspected: it has been some time since the one-centre-offline-contingency plan has been updated. And some people still reckon there are good reasons (mostly saving money) for just having one single ATC centre in Australia. Unbelievable.

[C-change]

Silence is deafening.

Was there any sign of an e-mail from our esteemed leader of leaders TFN?

Thats who I was hinting at in an earlier post. Funny how senior management are quick to lay blame on the so called renegade controllers who are apparently causing all the problems but when those same controllers save his organisations arse, and keep everyone safe, they duck for cover and say nothing.

The silence shows an appalling lack of leadership from a managerial team who clearly do not give a **** about their staff. Imagine if there had been a problem, you can bet it would be "due to the actions of a renegade controller engaged in industrial action".

To any senior AsA management who might read this, hang your heads in shame you spineless, piss weak bastards.