Coming back to the thread, this "perceived" safety issues have any statistic to back them up (for example ATC incidents in Spain compared to the rest of Europe) or are exactly that, "perceived" versus "real".
I Ford, you have missed the point, we are relating our experiences of operating day in and day out into Spanish airspace, and our "perceived" opinion is that there needs to be "real" improvement.
Don't forget for instance that we pilots also do our best to mitigate what we see as unsafe or questionable ATC instructions....
My Malaga Tale.....
B757 inbound to Martin and cleared to descend to 5500ft.....CB's all around, including one directly between us and Martin.
We advise approach that due weather we need right 15, and will then continue to Martin etc....
Approach advised that this is not possible, and that would we accept a left turn? (toward the high terrain
) and descend to 3000ft and pick up the localizer at 15 miles......
Advised ATC that this was not possible due to noise abatement (the sound of crunching aluminum impacting mountainside at 250kts) and that we needed a RIGHT turn.
ATC..NEGATIVE you have Nostrum Dash 8 traffic 5 miles behind catching you....
and so on and so on........just another day in Spanish airspace
