MYT913 - Taking the **** ?
Any My Travel pilots out there wanna join in ?
OK - we've had publicity recently about LCOs putting 'pressure' on ATCOs to cut routings etc....
I'm an easy going guy, don't like paperwork, do my best to expedite things along, but if I give a specific clearance, it's usually for a damned good reason. Yesterday there was such a reason. Busy elsewhere on the sector (200miles away at STN and 50 miles away at IOM) and answering plenty of landcalls, when MYT913 needs clearance out of EGAA heading for LEAL. Asks for DCT DUB VOR, but as I have conflicting slow overflight, and to make life easier for EIDW ATC, I give BEL-MULLA-DUB to stay in CAS and parallel off on slow tfc. (adds an extra 7 miles AND stays INSIDE CAS)
EGAA (under pressure from MYT) ask (again) for direct routing, no says I, route via MULLA.
ac gets airborne and EGAA advises he is on 'direct' heading (co-incidentally toward DUB VOR) for Wx avoidance - yeah right.
My point, I don't expect
a) to have to deal with a rqst 3 times (when I have other things to do)
b)ac to effectively refuse to comply with ATC clearance
c)lies - following ac reported no weather and good VMC FL100+
Strikes me as unprofessional and behaviour more becoming of a spoilt child. Is this commercial pressure to save fuel, or laziness to avoid entering waypoints?
Also, I would have been quite within rights to terminate service leaving CAS and instruct to remain clear of Dublins airspace, until further clearance. I didn't cos' I ain't pedantic like that, but my patience was tested. And is it company policy to route outside CAS in the open FIR ?
Last edited by Aunt Rimmer; 30th June 2002 at 02:55.