Originally Posted by
BFSGrad
7110.65, 3-7-5 already provides that protection; i.e., basically says ATC must not authorize access by aircraft or vehicles to ILS critical area of runway in use when wx less than 800 or 2 and the landing aircraft is inside the FAF.
The above procedure is not dependent on imposition of “low visibility ops.”
FAF means up to a dozen miles and 3-4 minutes!!
Elsewhere I picked up, in active LV Ops, protected area must be clear once arriving traffic is 2NM from treshold and landing clearance given, or may be delayed to 1NM out if arrival is informed to expect late landing clearance.
Anything but a clear picture
to me what ATC is supposed to do.
And 1NM out with a potentially distorted ILS signal up to this point does not sound comfortable to me.
Should FedEx have aborted the arrival at 1NM out? Or is this too European? And they
did have the ldg clr already, and were left with just an assumption of somebody else moving thru the ILS.