I flew into Marrakech about 5 weeks ago. ATC down there is the poorest I have witnessed by a country mile. As we descended through Fl150 I could see those great big Atlas mountains to the south and all around them heading our way were some of the biggest thunderstorms I have seen in my career, the weather radar was lit up like a Christmas tree.
Needless to say a lot of weather avoidance enroute to Agadir and once again ATC was virtually non existent( no radar in Marrakech).
The workload was high. Very high. The workload management was good. End result: Perfectly safe landing in Agadir.
The thought of me sitting there in a 65 tonne Jet with 200 souls on board doing all this on my own on a regular basis, quite frankly makes my blood run cold.
There's a reason single pilot airliners with hundreds of people on board don't exist.
When will they realise.
