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Old 30th Apr 2018, 22:33
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Slippery_Pete
 
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Wow, deep breaths Exit Stage Left, deep breaths.

As Bula says, if all these things are caused by pilots, why can we notice such a stark difference between when it’s running well and when it appears to come to a grinding halt?

I have no doubt the odd pilot makes a mess for you every now and then (much less often than you would suggest), but that happens all over the world.

It’s probably got less to do with individual pilots/controllers, and more to do with the fact that the wind can be 220/20 and we’re all flying min speed and holds because single runway ops.

Ive even had 250/20 and they wouldn’t let us use Runway 27. And don’t even start me on the runway that doesn’t exist (09).

Like I’ve said previously, I’ve arrive from the west to winds of 090/15 and runway 09 has been denied. The follow up phone call went along the lines of “no-one knows how to run Rwy09, so we don’t do it”.

In 20 years of arrivals from the west, I’ve landed on it ONCE.

The system is broken.
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