I have posted these before and they are still relevant.
Rules for successful flow control
1. Don’t trust pilots.
2. Don’t trust sector controllers.
3. Don’t trust tower controllers.
4. Don’t trust anyone else.
5. Develop a thick skin.
6. Never back a Twin Otter to beat anything, even another Twin Otter.
7. Never worry about departures, they are the tower's problem.
8. Pray that the management pilots have good FOs.
9. Computer Derived Threshold Times will be accurate only if the captain throws the computer out the storm window as he overflies the threshold in the go-round after being too intimate with the aircraft in front.
10. All pilots think that they should be Number 1.
11. Cardboard Bandeirantes can be used to hide unexplained gaps in the sequence.
12. Unless they build more runways the maximum number of aircraft that can land at an airport in a given time will remain the same, despite the wetdreams of airline schedulers.
13. Have faith in your own ability, no-one else does.
14. Same money, right or wrong.
15. If you believe the tower controller who says that the runway works will be finished prior to the start of the next sequence, you deserve all you get.
16. Your are only as good as your last sequence.
17. If your last sequence was not good, see above.
18. Keep slipping the odd joke to the approach controllers, it keeps their mind off what is coming up.
19. One day you will get a trainee who merely triples your workload.
20. Never sit in on approach and work your own sequence.
21. Always keep a false nose or wig in the car, an angry mob waiting outside the carpark is not a pretty sight.
22. The flow controller is never wrong. The flow controller may merely be acting on information that may now be superseded.
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