Originally Posted by Neptune262
What can we as ATCOs really expect an aircraft to know about what we tell them if the rules are not internationally based!
We can expect the pilots to do absolutely ANYTHING
. Lets be honest, we've all experienced RT fail a/c whether it be in the Ops room or in the sim and there is really no obvious course of action to be taken from an ATCO perspective other than to monitor what the a/c does and keep everything else out of its way. I feel that the proc's are all fine and dandy and for the en-route phase probably work fine as the pilot (if he elects to continue to destination) will do just that. It becomes a bit more sketchy when the a/c's in the terminal phase when holding or wx are a problem. At that stage it's anyones guess really.
Spamcan