Re: Handover already cleared to land
'Anal retenttive & visit the SMO', must have touched a nerve. Over 25 years in, have been told am fairly good at my job, unit instructor, standards etc. Like to think I do my job fairly. I wont give you examples of the same problem actually causing loss of tickets. Yes you are right the job id there to be done. In our world that is 'safely, expeditiously using standard RT & phraseology. As someone said we dont have a job without aircrew, however, we do our job correctly we get a hard time for being pedantic, we relax the rules and some jobsworth moans at the Sup because we were not following procedures. I like to think we have a good relationship with our crews but when it comes down to it if we continue to allow the rules to be 'relaxed' then there will be a problem eventually. The 2 miles cleared to land is not the best example, but take the case of a recent decision by a pilot to land at a secret Wiltshire airbase when the RVR was less then 100 meters, was this relaxing the rules. There are faults all round, I was pointing out that this was not correct, if I caused offence then fine. A plea from one who sits in the tower, come up and visit us, watch a PAR, sit on radar, sit in Local for 30 mins and watch why we ask you to 'go around' rather than extend downwind and hopefully things will continue to improve. Rant over, except I will not apologise for trying to ensure that people do the job safely.