Originally Posted by
mr plot
RRSM
1) $100000 a month and can't support your family?!
how many children do you have?
Just slightly less than you have Grandmothers, I suspect.
Last time I checked, the top of ATCO II had been cut by $10,000 a month to less than 3/4 of that.
Dragon69
Its certainly not uncommon for aircraft elsewhere to be told to call the Tower at the outer marker i.e. under 4NM.
With HK operating a much higher % mix of Heavy than any of the airports you mention, the compression factor on final becomes critical for wake turbulence sep. Holding a/c on APP freq until 5NM is certainly no big deal.