U.S. ATC question
Too often we are told to slow down and/or given vectors when we are coming up on an arrival fix. If you have 5 or 6 jets coming in why not just assign each jet a crossing time over the fix? Say you need 6-8-10 miles or 2-3-4 minutes then the fist jet gets XYZ @ 00:00, the second jet gets XYZ @ 00:02 or 03 depending on ground speed and so on. 200 miles out you could assign virtually any FMS A/C a crossing time and save yourselves a lot of headaches? Seems too simple, what am I missing here. With the changes in technology why are we still doing things like we did 25 years ago?
This question isn’t to be interpreted as an assault on anybody’s competence as that is not my intent at all. I just don’t get it……… You are working an arrival sector and have crossing times why not just assign those times to us rather than waiting until we are 40nm from the fix then vectoring us around the sky?
Last edited by Northbeach; 31st Dec 2008 at 05:12.