lion-g
Did you consider refusing the clearance? I think I was number 25 or 26 that night in VABB. The funny part was as we came out of the 360, I asked what routing they wanted, "Please hold where you are", was the answer, no hold instructions, no defined pattern, just stay there. It was about 20 minutes before I teased something resembling a EFC, "you are number 25 and 2 and half minutes per plane". He could have said, "do the math, Yank."
GF