Originally Posted by
tescoapp
If you knew how little training Marshallers get its not very surprising this is the case.
It's not just the training, it's also the experience.
We once had an event with small aircraft at Schiphol airport. Schiphol supplied the (highly professional) marshallers. It simply did not work initially, because they had no clue about our limitations. One marshaller was trying to get an aircraft parked between two others, and was frantically waving the aircraft to make a tighter turn. They did not know that our nosewheels can only turn about 30 degrees left/right off center, but were expecting airline-style 80-degrees or so. In the end the PIC decided to shut down, and we manually pushed and pulled the aircraft into place.
On the other hand, when the marshallers made a mistake, directing two aircraft nose-to-nose on the taxiway and had no clue how to sort it out, the pilots simply turned right off the centerline markings, and passed each other right there on the taxiway with room to spare. The marshallers had never contemplated that simple solution since the smallest planes they were normally working with could not do that.
Both the pilots and the marshallers learned a lot that day.