Ahhhh, tekkies tekkies tekkies
Where would we be without you all? Fixing all those birds, working 24/7, and swanning around in your merc badges. Why not? Everyone on the station pitches up to work, does the job, goes home and has a bottle of wine or two to calm down after the hectic day that Lyneham seems to be having an awful lot of recently.
PROBLEM
The tin duck is fixed, the crew go into planning, briefing etc, its fuelled, loaded, inflight has fed and watered, all is set. Ol' nobby two stripes and the rest of his crew go to start/taxi etc - the bl**dy thing breaks!
Lets pretend this is a high priority task.
MT have to collect the crew and take them to ops, flight plans have to be delayed/cancelled while we wait for an estimate time for fixing the snag, ASCOT go mad because Lyneham hasn't got anything else to offer, crew duty is running out ATC want to know the ins and outs, destinations get anal due to the lack of dep/en route time, people are missing well earned lunch/tab breaks, more stripes get involved and even more time is wasted - bedlam!
SOLUTION?
Hand over to the night shift and enjoy 1/2.....3 bottles of wine in ya cozy warm room! He he
So when we talk about decreasing manpower/increase in tasking lets think about the knock on effect to the rest of the station and even other stations..... Has Lyneham really got it that bad?