Originally Posted by
The Banjo
Proficient ATC and accurate weather reports are no longer the norm since covid. KPI seeking managers in the respective organisations gutted the experience levels during covid with ill thought out redundancies which has turned the aviation landscape into a shxtshow.
maybe but it’s all relative.
Oz ATC still don’t clear you to 2000’ instead of 12000’ radar terrain as happened to me not that long ago. Took two queries to fix it.
I’ve only flown to 40 countries and agree with above - Aus is comparatively benign.