Originally Posted by
SandyPalms
Start clearances and COBT's are easy to implement. That wasn't done. I think ATC is to blame. Other airports do it better. Why can't Melbourne? Just wait till the greenies get involved here with all the wasted CO2 simply because ATC is too disengaged to do something. I get it, but if I just gave up because it's all too hard, what would be the predicted outcome?
COBT's are not something us line controllers can just implement. But start clearances, I am not sure why that wasn't done. It's a very easy fix, or just hold people on the bay a bit longer. I wasn't there so don't know the issue but those would be 2 go to problem solvers over here in the West, and we have similar parking issues especially on the western side of the aerodrome.