Originally Posted by
UNIFO
Forget about US controllers, we don't do visual approach and cowboy RT in Asia.
Maybe visual approaches and "cowboy RT" are required for more movements without infrastructure and airspace expansion. Having to hold every crews' hands onto ILS final seems a bit archaic to me. We could TCAS follow traffic ahead with decent pointouts and monitored separation, much less a visual sequence which admittedly would be difficult on most days in the HK smog. Of course, low time crews are not helping matters either. If the assertion is that the US ATC is unsafe, please support that with statistics.