Originally Posted by
Livesinafield
Don't agree with this whatsoever, Flying out of BHX in noisy purple things the standard of ATC is excellent as good as anywhere in the UK, just because you have a beef with the management don't drag our fellow professionals into it
I will quote one example for you
I was given an incorrect departure clearance three times despite repeatedly querying it and it was only resolved on transfer to London. It was reported as an MOR by me. Following an investigation I had a reply from the head of safety of my airline, which was quite unusual as replies from ASR/MOR investigations were normally from an analyst , stating that he was very disappointed to read the poor response from the BHX ATC manager.
The reply from them failed to explain why the event had happened or what was going to be done about it, or any lessons they could learn from it.
He was very surprised at the lack of openness from a UK ATC unit.