Originally Posted by
pinkpanther1
To any of the ATC guys/ladies in this forum I've been wondering - what ever happened to "Behind the landing XXX line up behind".
Feels like it used to be common but now it's rarely used. Such a great way to have the next departure ready to launch the second an arrival clears the runway.
Yes, it worked well even with the extra behind added as per your example.
Stop bars didn't allow this, there were no conditionals, the traffic had to have passed before issuing the line-up clearance and dropping the stop bars. You'd think some artificial intelligence could be apply and the stop bars dropped on the lineup clearance by the system whilst the instruction to line up is given. Or a conditional clearance issued and the AI determines the condition and applies it dynamically.