Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
That ATC has subscribed to the odd notion of central control is not the controllers’ fault, nor ours. It would be so much easier if a metering fix crossing time was part of our initial clearance. Why, pray tell, does ATC waste resources trying to predict crossing times when they could simply assign them hours prior, and let punitive holding be the wages of sin (or poor nav skills)?
I have been told that the current ATC technology is unable to do this and has to wait until everybody is closer in. Maybe someone in ATC could elaborate?