Originally Posted by
pudoc
Interesting to see not many people blaming the approach controller. How you can plonk an aircraft right below another and ask them to maintain visual separation, whilst at a similar speed and track...legal or not. I know that’s the done thing in the US but there’s a lack of airmanship shown by the controller. Awful vectoring too.
Spot on, pudoc. I think SFO controllers tend to forget that many pilots operate there only now and then, and are far from familiar with the less than optimum airport configuration. Also, expecting a heavy to do a S turn on finals at the end of a long haul flight is unrealistic.