Originally Posted by
rodney rude
I hope this thread is drifting along the lines of "lets not blame the controllers'. I seriously think they do the best job they can do with what is available to them. They are great - its a system issue, and Australia's BS corporate culture of get less people doing more work, cut costs, up profits and reward execs. And this corporate greed culture leaves a trail of underperforming processes and practices and totally burned out workers.
Hang in there controllers.
From grateful and understanding pilot.
Start clearances and COBT's are easy to implement. That wasn't done. I think ATC is to blame. Other airports do it better. Why can't Melbourne? Just wait till the greenies get involved here with all the wasted CO2 simply because ATC is too disengaged to do something. I get it, but if I just gave up because it's all too hard, what would be the predicted outcome?