Marshalling and nose-in parking
Pilots. If you are parking your aircraft on a stand that utilises marshalling rather than some form of automated guidance, what level of guidance do you expect from your marshaller? Notwithstanding the airport's own rules and regulations and your company’s own SOPs, are you happy to judge the turn on to the lead-in line yourself or do you want the appropriate signal from the marshaller? Do you need to be instructed to slow down or can you decide your own taxi speed ? I guess being told when to stop is the most pertinent instruction.
As a reasonably experienced but no longer practising batman, I preferred to keep it simple, i.e. over here, move forward, stop. I would instruct a 'slow down' if the pilot was caning it rather.
Is anyone prepared to admit to disregarding the marshaller's signals at any time ?! Does your approach to parking vary according to the light, weather and surface conditions?
Thankyou.