RTOs & LVPs
Hello ATCOs,
I’m one of the grateful drivers of the traffic you control and recently had a sim detail that involved RTOs in LVPs. I was told to declare a Mayday or a Pan Pan when stopping because “they’ll line someone up behind you and clear them for takeoff!”
ICAO Doc 4444 only mentions “callsign, stopping” and three UK CAP 413 also sticks to that call on the RT. So my query is what are the procedures for you guys and gals to ensure we have gotten airborne etc? In VMC it’s a visual check that the aircraft is airborne or at least positively rotating successfully. What’s the routine in IMC?
Many thanks and keep up the good work!
(ps. Useful if you could mention which country’s procedures your’e describing!)