Originally Posted by
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
In the "old days" we would have talked to flow control and they'd say "let him go". Guess not nowadays...
still happens.
although now the T-Manager usually has to get Brussels to approve it. Unless it’s a UK reg.
we’d never make the aircraft return to stand.
worst ways we will update then plan, re ready message it and find somewhere for it to wait.
1 minute after the CTOT, I’d just forget how to count or accidentally mark the strip airborne...