If the ozzies had the same procedures in place as the French, this would not have happened. When I was o/s, on first contact with CDG tower, you were given the wind direction and strength then cleared to land. There may have been 3 or 4 a/c in front of you for the same rwy but it ALWAYS worked. The only additional info passed was if the a/c directly in front was a heavy.
They leave it up to pilot discretion to "accept the waiver" for wake turb, why can't we take the initiative and just land the a/c if the rwy is clear?
It is difficult to mandate common sense, but I think we need to wake up in this country and stop all this procedural garbage from stifling a common sense approach to resolve a minor situation.
Losing comms through congestion or equipment failure on short final should under no circumstance require a go around. The fact is in many other countries they could have landed without a clearance without incident. In Australia's current climate of culturally enhancing dobbing, is it little wonder people are afraid to exercise their better judgement.
Australian rule makers, welcome to the 21st century .