Riverboat

This might sound a bit pompous and precious... NATS did a survey about level busts about 18 months ago and the amount that happened were phenomenal.

Many reasons and several steps taken to help prevent it. Saying degrees is not difficult and it does prevent mishaps.

The UK has arguably the best safety record with an open reporting system and no blame culture that works well and has been adopted by other countries.

The UK, mainly through NATS is at the forefront of technology and procedures to make things safer. One of the reasosn is because of the nature of our tight bit of airspace, we have to be proactive. Time and time again, other agencies follow and adopt procedures or buy kit.

It's not about being precious, it's about flight safety. The precious people are those who cannot adjust and add one word onto the end of an instruction, or who sit there and think, why should I change, I've always doen it this way.

If imrpoving Flight Safety really is precious and and pompous , then I for one am glad that the UK lead the way regardless of whatever tags are added :ugh: