fireflybob wrote:
p_perez, if you want pilot's pay and conditions then become a pilot!
I frankly don´t remember saying I would trade myself with a pilot. You should see me driving my car, so don´t mention an airplane!
And add to that having to endure the
pain in the arse of the Spanish ATC ... Are you kidding, man?
Jokes apart, my interest in comparing rosters with those of pilot´s is just the answer to the interest many pilots have shown in the wages and T&C´s of Spanish ATCO´s, mostly as munition to attack us. Have a look at all these individual messages:
http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/416...ml#post5718762
http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/416...ml#post5773337
http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/416...ml#post5774696
http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/416...ml#post5816560
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post5730435
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post5751413
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post5752470
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post5817174
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post5823593
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post5828538
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4...ml#post5829480
I was only showing how hypocrite they could be. Comparing your 12/16 days off a month with our 4/5 days off was meant only for the activation of proper "bells and whistles" regarding SAFETY, mainly YOUR safety, because after all, we Spanish ATCO´s will be sitting in our chairs, very close to terrain, through out the whole august roster, while you guys ...
Dries wrote:
Thank you for the lengthy posts you have written in this thread. (...)
Well, thank you very much for your kind and constructive post,
Dries. I recognize myself in many of the errors you mention. To justify a few of them, I would say that they were taught to me by some of my senior colleagues, whom I very much respect, that had to learn the profession the tough way. Anyway, with your permission, I´ll print your list and it will be shown around in my ACC. For sure it will be read with interest, mostly among the new generations.
Last friday, july 23rd, a very serious incident happened at Madrid ACC. A TV crew from the state TVE1 was visiting the installation as part of the making of a documentary about the situation of Spanish ATC. Prior to the entrance of the TV crew to the main hall, an AENA manager named "Antonio" (I suspect he is a former ATCO that "fell to the dark side" for €€), aided by a nameless AENA employee, entered the hall and started removing all the posters and signs about our conflict with AENA, which had been placed progressively by my colleagues since feb. 5th:
And this is the video of what happened, in the middle of the ACC operation, with pilots and controllers trying to comunicate (
MUST SEE!!!!!):
YouTube - Acoso laboral de Aena a los controladores del Centro de Control de Torrejón y censura informativa
This is an example of the
censorship 
AENA is applying to all the installations and staff related to ATC. Journalists have their entrace forbidden to all AENA ATC work places, and this has also been aplied to some politicians that have shown interest in knowing 1st hand our real situation. It is also an example of the daily pressure AENA management is putting on ATCO´s and of what they care about SAFETY in our job.
Similar situations have been repeated in other towers and ACC´s, with AENA management staff disrupting the normal operation to deliver personally mandatory "express services" to already (on the job) overworked colleagues.
More information as soon as I can post it.
Saludos!