As a pilot flying out of Glasgow could I ask that you get onto your management and ask them to STOP THIS RIDICULOUS SCHEME.
I have noticed it myself. I always looked at Glasgow controllers as being pretty damn good and they can squeeze traffic out no problem, utilising the runway perfectly. Why this stupid idea?? It is useless! I have to now sit at the hold and wonder when I'm going to get going. I see a chap approximately 3 mile final... am I going behind him? If I am, what aircraft type or airline is it? Am I going to watch him land and THEN know whether or not I'm getting the line-up, then frantically rush the end checks whilst positioning onto the runway and being told there is more landing traffic?
This is pathetic... please can the people that introduced this 'scheme' please take it back out as soon as possible before I start going up my own ranks and build up a serious case against the scheme.
We want to exercise our great situational awareness!! We cannot do that if we do not know of traffic around us and when we are due out.