Quote from Bomber Harris :
Genuinly nothing personal ATC watcher, but you did make your comment sound like that reporting the problem over pprune to you will have more of an affect to change things, rather than my previous course of action. I know you most likely didn't mean it that way....it's just my cynical mind
Well, sorry to have sounded pedantic to you, no, I certainly did not meant it that way. What I meant, and was afraid of , is excatly what followed : bashing Spanish ATC as a whole, and adding the language issue to it .
Complaining about ATC is a bit like complaining about women : you meet a few bad ones and the whole gender has to pay.
I am also a firm believer , like you it seems, of discussing and arranging things behind the " official " lines or offices . In Latin countries , such as Spain, an extended lunch with someone is certainly far more productive than mailing dozens of " official reports" .
No, PPRuNe will probably not change much, and certainly will not remove the legal requirement to use the language of the county overflown on the R/T ( whether it is an ICAO language or not, this is totally unconnected )
But having personally seen and lived though Spanish ATC and Spanish regulation before Franco, I can assure you that the situation has considerably improved , and still is improving . Perhaps not at the top level yet , but slowly getting there .
P.S. : For the Junior ones on this Forum that doubt what I say, just have a look at how an airline like Spantax was operating in 1970-80 and compare with today's. .
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