Originally Posted by slim_slag
I quite agree Porco, we all make mistakes, and nothing wrong with that per se. I guess the point I was making was the controllers stuffed up, and they punished the GA pilot and not the commercial operation. What should have happened is the jet should have been sent around, the jet jockey would throw his toys out the the pram, and the controllers advised of a mistake in a no blame manner. So next time a light aircraft turns up
having agreed to pay the charges for a professional service, the controllers get it a bit better. If they get away with it, there is no incentive to change. But I still like controllers
When we have traffic going down the ILS at minimum spacing and someone doesn't follow the speed instruction and the spacing erodes, it's usually the innocent party behind that gets broken off and re-positioned. Or as you might like to say, punished.
But we don't look at it that way, we're just after the safest solution to the problem and that is usually to break off the one behind. I'm sure the atco in the scenario you describe thought they were dealing with the problem in the safest way for all as well. Introducing language talking about punishing people doesn't do anything but possibly unnecessarily inflame any debate.
I think ultimately we'll probably just have to agree to disagree