racism and safety
As an aviation proffessional in Africa I have seen alot of things. But the industry here is starting to scare me. Most of the staff here are already unequipped to handle any sort of real problems, letalone the fact racism seems to be forcing even less skilled people into the industry, just to fill tribal quotas.
As an example. A certain airport handles 40 aeroplanes on aproach, yet last time I visited I was held up (747 200) by a cessna 210 doing training. On speaking to pilots I met whilst there, they explained to me that the controller concerned had been on app training for 12 months and still could not handle more than 3 aeroplanes per hour.
Apparently the system is not able to get rid of controllers like this due to racial issues.
IMHO this is a ridiculous and dangerous situation. Safety must come first, if someone can't do the job it is an obligation to get rid of them in an industry where hundreds of people can die per mistake made.