Hi Raw
Thx for the feedback
I'm an approach controller at Tambo and understand your frustration. Our system seems to be quite effective up to about 80% capacity, any more than that and things fall apart.
FAJS has been operating very well, but then again, we are used to high traffic volumes and the weather has played ball as well. Without an ILS, if FALA had been IMC ever you would still have been holding.
This same mess happened the week before, although not to the same scale, so I'm not sure why lessons were not learnt. I also have no idea why the CAMU appeared to be non existent with flights still departing although FALE was full or why the arrival controllers didn't phone the other aerodromes to halt their deps.
I hope all this comes out in an investigation so we can all learn from this occurence. I also hope you contact the OPS management with your feedback to aid them in detecting the weaknesses in our system.
Enjoy the last day - plenty parking where we are
