RNAV STARS
Hi IronButt57,
RNAV STARS maybe be great if you're number 1 (as per the self-positioning request made by Ray Darr), but in the evening when it's busy with 10 or so inbound, my experience with STARS in the past lends me to believe I can't see it helping as much as we would like, we would still have to take you off the star for sequencing. We often get the estimate for traffic from Muscat and Doha quite 'late' compared to all the others due to their proximity, so that often forces us to change our sequence. And as the changes we require are normally unable to be obtained by speed alone, we are forced to dog-leg or extend downwind.
As mentioned in my earlier post (and by Abu as well), when we have to give tower 10nm spacing between successive inbounds, it makes sequencing 10 or so inside a 40 mile TMA tricky.
I know what the Dubai procedures look like, but I have never been to Dubai to see them worked. What percentage of the time are you left to fly the full arrival?
I also mentioned earlier, things take time to change here. We have been campaigning for the ditching of the 10nm rule at night for a while. I will investigate if we could ever expect some sort of STARS for Abu Dhabi and report back.
Cheers
Sherif