Originally Posted by
AreOut
hah I agree about that and I agree that ATC is not accountable here, but somehow it's just another redundancy step that one could expect here from an experienced ATC(bear in mind not a single jet airliner has ever took off from that position), confused pilot going to the wrong position cutting his runway for 1 whole kilometer and saying "2-2 no 1-2" would ring an alarm and just telling the pilot "please go back to default position"(no reasons needed) would have prevented all of this
The redundancy step was re-iterating the position and TORA and double-checking they were happy to accept. What do you want next, controllers thinking a crosswind approach looks a bit dodgy and instructing the pilot to go-around because they saw a tail strike once? You have to trust that a pilot knows what their plane is (and isn’t) capable of, and how to fly it, or the system doesn’t work.