Flying Torquewrench, have a look here, at post number #36,
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...t=96618&page=2
which I made nearly four years ago, describing a not dissimilar incident.
I made the following observation then:
"When I think back over the worst examples of this type of controlling I have observed, it is always after a more lengthy exchange than normal, between the pilot and the controller. I can only come to the conclusion, alluded to by Crackerjack, that most of this is “driven” by the (Spanish) pilots involved, but it is the controllers that are either “caving in” to their demands or are quite happy to go along with them.
The controllers, presumably, are unaware that this way of doing things is not the norm elsewhere, but the pilots for sure, know damn well that it is not!
(Well, maybe not the Binter pilots........)”
Some of the previous posts on this thread would seem to indicate that there are some signs of slow change taking place….