Another part of the “System” is publishing necessary information to operators in the AIP to allow them to know what to expect. In the rebuttal video the “controller” states they treated the DLH as though it was requesting the opposite end. Now as an example, since Heathrow has already been used so much in this thread, if you look in the
EGLL AIP entry and scroll to 6,a,ii) with regards to the local preferential runway procedure and requiring the opposite end:
“Pilots who ask for permission to use the runway into wind when, in accordance with these procedures, Runway 27R or 27L are in use, should understand that their arrival or departure may be delayed.”
Now, I’m not as au fait with browsing FAA documents so I may well have missed it and I’m more than happy to be corrected, but I can’t find anything similar in the KSFO AIP entry that suggests something as fundamental as requiring the controllers to provide radar separation might incur a similar delay. How do you expect DLH to be aware they’ll need to make this remark short of “well they should just know”?