A query - do the 'slot times' refer to landing or overhead arrival times?
I read all the stuff this year and arrived in the overhead at exactly the right time to make my landing time after following the 'mandatory overhead join' requirement. Was therefore rather miffed when someone else barged in downwind, outside their slot time and then flew half-way to the North Sea to set up the usual White Waltham style long final approach...... Whiskey Zulu - you know who you are!
If it says 'Overhead Join Mandatory', vATCO will you please direct such people to do so in future?
On another point, it says in LARGE LETTERS on the departure brief that one should not call on RT before ready to cross to the holding point. So I did as it said on the brief, started, taxyed and was just about to call with a request to cross the short to the hold when someone in the tower beamed a red at me and then said "We didn't get your taxy call". Please amend the brief to be more accurate (if that's what you want people to do) - and include a decent aerodrome map if possible.