Anyone from procedural towers?
Just Binos
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If you, Black Maria, are one of the regular participants in that morning gaggle you'll know that it can degenerate into a complete dogfight, especially in IMC. I was off duty today (which may explain why it all worked well!) but I'll make sure the controller on duty, who is one of the ab-initios who hasn't been rated long, is made aware of your comments. 
I' m not going to look anybody straight in the face and say Mackay is Oshkosh reincarnated, the movement stats will show that's not true. What the stats don't show is when it happens, and peak times each day make for very interesting situations.
I'll repeat what I have said on these pages before. Cairns and Coolangatta before the mid-air at Cooly were working movement numbers way beyond what procedural control was originally designed to handle. Any controller who worked those stations successfully in procedural days has nothing else to prove to anyone.
Just as a final word, I recall a time when I was SMC in the old Brisbane tower and the radar failed. The guy on ADC was an old procedural controller, and his eyes lit up. He had a ball for ten minutes or so using procedural standards while the Senior Tower Controller had a hissy fit not having a clue what he was doing. Good stuff Bevan!
I' m not going to look anybody straight in the face and say Mackay is Oshkosh reincarnated, the movement stats will show that's not true. What the stats don't show is when it happens, and peak times each day make for very interesting situations.
I'll repeat what I have said on these pages before. Cairns and Coolangatta before the mid-air at Cooly were working movement numbers way beyond what procedural control was originally designed to handle. Any controller who worked those stations successfully in procedural days has nothing else to prove to anyone.
Just as a final word, I recall a time when I was SMC in the old Brisbane tower and the radar failed. The guy on ADC was an old procedural controller, and his eyes lit up. He had a ball for ten minutes or so using procedural standards while the Senior Tower Controller had a hissy fit not having a clue what he was doing. Good stuff Bevan!
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So, do I read this thread right?.....there is less chance of me being being controlled by Nick Falzone (aka John Cusack) and Russell Bell (aka Billy Bob Thornton) at a regional "Procedural Tower" than elsewhere in the ATC world? 
(BTW Binos, just about to hit 9yrs worth of that morning gargle)
Regards all.
(BTW Binos, just about to hit 9yrs worth of that morning gargle)
Regards all.
