Originally Posted by
jumpseater
Reading that (4) closely the airport authority will have questions to answer as to why those stopbars aren’t individually controlled.
Making an assumption here that if C8 is deselected it reads that C3 to C12 simultaneously deselect too. What could possibly go wrong?
Forgive me (non-pilot) if I'm missing something, but doesn't that design have to be read with the last line: "5) During the period Stop Bar Lights operated, TWY C3 THRU C12 are not available for departure aircraft." If the C3-C12 stop bars are only ever used at times when nobody's allowed to enter the runway there, why would this be a problem? There would be no need to deselect the C8 stop bar, let alone deselect it while aircraft are waiting to enter the runway via any of the other C3-C12 holding points - nobody will be doing so.