In response to the report above, the following comments were received from the reporter: We have attempted numerous time to resolve these issues with [service provider] and the two aerodrome operators, before making the REPCON report. I am pleased to say we have been made aware that there have already been some long overdue improvements to the process at [location].

The ATSB received comments from the reporter to these responses and further questions were sent to Airservices.  The following is a summary of these questions: Whilst it is understandable that Airservices would expect instances of sleeping on console to be reported, many are hesitant to do so in fear of repercussions. There has also been more than one occasion where controllers have tried to report this occurrence however have then been asked for date, time and name of the colleague who fell asleep. Many are unwilling to continue the report as they don’t want their colleague to be…

REPCON supplied the operator with the de-identified report. The following is a version of their response: The anonymous reporter expressed concern regarding safety related matters when operating with two particular areas: Multiple [Operator] training aircraft operating in the [Location] circuit Use of private departure procedures by [Operator]. We will provide information regarding each concern. Concern 1 [Operator 1] has a policy that we will not have any more than three company aircraft conducting circuit operations at any one time. However, this does not preclude that other company…