in particular the level of preparedness of the flight crew.
The hypocrisy of this statement almost brings me to the point of vomiting.
CAG is
THE most disorganized, haphazard, "anything goes" airport in Europe. How can one be expected to be prepared when it is not at all untypical to be cleared for up to 7 different approaches from top of descent to landing!? Only when crossing the threshold can one be certain of the approach type and can one be certain of the runway in use. Even as low as 1000ft they will attempt to spring a circling approach on crews.
Every single visit we make there sees a lack of professionalism, effort and downright negligence by both Rome Control and CAG approach brought to ever higher levels. It is total chaos every single time. One only has to look at the Meridiana incident a while back to see what total incompetents the ATC and ENAC in general are.