Max AB
Not wanting to pour fuel on the flames...BUT this kind of thing happens every day into Dubai from both east and west.
If it was just the once, I would say "oh well, what to do" and get on with life. This is a very regular occurrence, from the Muscat side it isn't a huge problem, we have room to bend people around behind the guy down in the weeds...the problem is from the Desdi side...we have no room to play and I have seen many a time A330s dragging it in wanting below F150 at ITITA when we are on RWY30.
Naturally we are trying to keep you high to keep you moving quicker across the ground (that is all we really care about). When you are at A100, the guys on a "normal" descent profile 10,000 feet or more above you are eating you alive!
Remember you get to see it from your cockpit with your aircraft...we get to see it with all of them.
Granted it was not as bad, but 2 EK A330s came through BUBIN today, both were maintaining F200 well prior to TAPRA. Using the 4:1 ratio that one of you gentlemen mentioned to me, they were both still in excess of 20 miles "low", for what you would expect.
Muttley Crew...
Is the gripe about direct tracking directed to Dubai or UAE? Just wondering. We sometimes give away direct to segregate tracks, and sometimes to reduce R/T as we have to give full route clearances through the airspace...takes a lot of time when you do it a couple of hundred times per day.
Thanks again for the replies