G'day Scott, Mike,
Over at
Dunnunda we're having a discussion on landing clearances being issued on first contact with TWR, or maybe soon after, even though there may be a number of aircraft to use the runway before you get to it.
In Australia we don't do it.
One poster reports that it's done at CDG, France, and I know its done in the US, but I don't know if it's a standard procedure everywhere or at certain locations under certain conditions. Can you help us out, please:
Under what circumstances do you do this?
- VMC only?
- IMC?
- Do you do it when the runway is used for departures AND arrivals, or only when, say with parallel RWYs, you use one for departures and one for arrivals?
- Do you do it during crossing runway ops?
- Do you do it if the airport layout requires regular runway crossings?
- Are there specific conditions that must be met before you can do it?
Thanks in advance, guys
AA