Dear piloting fraternity,
When you check in with UAE control and you hear the controller banging aircraft left, right and into the spin, speed control all around and barely able to take a breath before the next a/c checks in....can you kindly THINK before you bother the controller by asking for the opposite end of the duty runway?
Do you seriously expect, with all that is going on, that the controller is going to even bother passing the request on to Dubai (who BTW is also up to his armpits in alligators, and who would have to coordinate that request with Dubai or Sharjah Tower as well)?
Some one said recently that Dubai handles more traffic than Gatwick....so my question is: When on approach to Gatwick or Heathrow, do you ask for the wrong end of the runway and expect to get it?
If the answer is yes...well....if the answer is no...well.....
happy aviating
