In view of the time taken to get the thing operational, I for one was actually quite surprised how well things have gone. Yes the restrictions are awful and the RT is far worse than anywhere in Europe, and almost as bad as Dakar Control. But the upshot of my post is that it is probably purely down to the professionalism of the controllers at the sharp end that it works at all, and things MUST improve otherwise we shall become the 3rd world ATC system of Europe.