Lear70
JAFFO
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- Oct 17, 2003
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You think a certain 747 accident a while back would have curbed their attitude a little...Agree, I think Kuala Lumpur must have the worst controllers out there. Often it sounds like they get offended if you ask them to "say again" something so when they repeat it they'll say it twice as fast.....and while you are asking them to repeat something they'll switch your landing runway back and forth too - beautiful place, very sucky controllers...
I've always found that, when a controller gets especially aggressive (northeast more than anywhere else), simply asking for their initials will often get them to do a self-correcting-attitude-check (never had them refuse, either).
I've only had to call an ATC facility about a controller ONCE, and it was in Martha's Vineyard about 7 years ago after 3 go-arounds in a Lear due to controller ineptitude (kept putting people in front of us too close-in to the runway). Finally had to declare min fuel and, even then, they tried to put someone in front of us for takeoff as we were on a 1 mile final. Told them myself to hold short, do not take the runway and, luckily for us, they listened.
The controller was sent for retraining, supervisor was in the tower 5 minutes after we landed (New York Approach was monitoring and called the tower manager before we were on the ground).
Most of the time, the controllers are cool, they are just saturated and then get frustrated. Happens to all of us.