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Originally Posted by
morno 
The lack of conditional line up clearances is a CASA problem, not ATC. It’s got to do with the stop bars
Then change the rules and operate like most other worldwide busier airfields! Would free up the departure rates.
Absolutely!! A simple yet effective example of how out of touch and restrictive Australian ATC and the associated bureaucracy have became. I'm a former OZ ATC now working with the blinkers removed and it has been a revelation.
The international hub I now work at has at least 1,200 movements a day - every day! We can push 46 departures and 36 arrivals an hour on a two RWY - one in, one out set up. We have stop bars everywhere. We can give an aircraft a conditional line up clearance behind the one in front that has a conditional line up clearance to line up behind the one on the RWY. Using stop bars no less. Oh the humanity........
The goal is to be as efficient as possible and get everyone moving. Make it work. Procedures have been developed to achieve that outcome. It can be done and is being done elsewhere in the world. The parochial,
"that's how we have always done it" 'leaders' need to stop patting each other on the back and get on the with the game.
Some other examples of Australia being left behind in the ATC world.......
NATS time based sep.............
RECAT-EU...............
Dubai Capacity Enhancement..
As that famous philosopher Mr F. Bueller once said, "life moves pretty fast...."