Originally Posted by
Equivocal
I was involved with MATS 1 when ICAO introduced LAHSO - it was universally agreed to be a bad idea that wouldn’t be included in the UK book. But the extract posted above feels awfully familiar and I’d have sworn that it’s been in the manual somewhere for years.
I’ve been out of the CAA for years now and haven’t really followed what’s happened in the books in recent years, nor in actual practice, but I can’t help feeling that losing the MATS 1 would be a big backward step. I hope - as Gonzo suggests - that all of the good stuff, like interpreting the ICAO stuff, is kept somehow.
Same here, I can recall using that para as a method of "encouraging" a landing aircraft to exit asap. It was never interpreted as LAHSO.