***Finally you, me, the cleaners and caterers all know the benefit of having closer holds, but it hasn't quite seeped thru to GCAA yet.***
I have only been in UAE a short while, so I'll let Air No services take up the cudgels on this...but to all the other pilots out there, you get pushed down so that the UAE controllers have a fighting chance to get you down into the hold. DESDI is after all only about 40 miles from touch on 12.
We simply can't have you guys slowly wandering down in the hold from FL350 and have you expect to get ahead of the guy below you in the pattern...West sector can only hav 6 in the hold, North overlies this and also has sector capacities that regularly are exceeded.
When that occurs, some are taken over to BUBIN and some are held out of UAE airspace.
With Dubai apporach regularly asking for more than the agreed 20nm (yes, that's right sportsfans 20nm in trail between 1730 and 2230) the holds fill up pretty quickly AND take a long time to clear.
So if yo go back a place in the sequence because you won't descend fast enough, every spot back is at least 20nm extra.
We in the UAE are TOLD what spacing to give...so can you save your grumbling for when you arrive on 124.9? thanks
