Originally Posted by
Apple Tree Yard
With the odd notable exception, I sadly have to agree with that description. Most of them need to be seconded to LHR ATC for 6 months to obtain an understanding of how professionals do that job (and to learn a few manners).
Hah!!! You mean the airport where everyone follows RNAV transitions with specific speed controls to the final of widely-spaced ILS approaches? Where nearly the only arrival handling from the east is stepping aircraft down in a hold to join said transitions?? Go to ORD, JFK, LGA, EWR, SFO, etc if you want to watch talented controllers. I have flown to every continent except Antarctica, and while European controllers are typically competent and courteous, they are not as pressed as the approach controllers in those previously mentioned locations. England, center of the universe!!