Vintage ATCO
Quite agree. And, of course, the fact that NATS is apparently going its own way in this respect also degrades the possible effectiveness when the rest of the country/world is doing something different. If NATS is so convinced that this is a Good Thing, why not argue the case with CAA and at least get the Authority to mandate it throughout the UK. But then NATS thinks that it runs ATC in the UK, I suppose - or, more likely, it is just the result of middle management grasping at straws in their efforts to demonstrate that they are doing something about safety.
Having said that, I have always been of the opinion that such a conditional instruction relating to a landing aircraft should specify the position of that aircraft.
Equally vintage - and unimpressed - 2 s