Exactly,
I first posted this thread to see if anyone had similar experiences of being cleared for the downwind runway etc. Not just a complaint about the incessant RT chatter in Spanish.
In my opinion that's just as dangerous, but not really what I asked.
By the way, since posting the original thread I have been given a vector on departure from LE** that was 30deg right of that requested and would have taken me into a red/magenta cb that was visible from the parking stands.
Great work.
Toodle pip,
MoT