<<Who comes up with these ideas?>>
In my modest experience, people who have done little or no work at the coal face. Waaaay back a senior man at Heathrow decreed that it was unsafe to launch northbound traffic off the southerly runway whilst landing traffic on the northerly runway was inside the outer marker (4 DME). This edict was issued late one Friday afternoon (like several of his similarly daft ideas) and the airfield almost ground to a halt. The instruction was cancelled very shortly thereafter!!!
PS How did we get away with using conditional clearances for so many years without problems?
Last edited by HEATHROW DIRECTOR; 10th June 2010 at 16:11.