firstly i work in the center not in dubai app so i can only assume that the comment "The fact that centre control the holds and have zippo ability to sequence aircraft leads to all sorts of problems in Dubai" would be aimed at controllers in the center.
secondaly i am 100% genuine in my offer for you to come on in. i dont do patronising, occasional sarcasm but no patronising. if someone is going to make the effort to come into the center or call then they deserve to be treated as an equal. you have been speaking as a person who knows how it should be done so put your money where your mouth is and come in and show me.
as to why dubai dont control the holds? who would know. they have been told by their managers that they are to hold in only very exceptional circumstances and not for weather. they have told us not to ask for speeds/tracking just give them the required spacing and leave the rest to them. some crews are great and give tracking to us and the sequence works a treat. other crews don't and we watch a/c either track shorteded or given an extra 20+nm to try and make it work. i have lost count of the ammount of times i have had 8+ a/c line astern 10nm trail only to be told by dubai we need 15/20nm now. when asked why the responses have ranged from "we need to get 2 depatures away" to "it might get busy later so just in case"
again come into the center when its busy and have a look.
is it a perfect system? far from it. but you can only do what the next sector and the rules allows you to do. and you can only make the sequence work if pilots follow instructions. until the managers in dubai and the center get together and sort out a better system nothing will happen.
if you read my very first post i came up with a really easy solution. slo
t times. everyone has been saying how wonderful their shiney new planes are so you get a slot time and you fly the a/c to make it. to early? then hold till a slot becomes avaiable. to late same deal
