Delays at Bankstown
The rules are set by CASA and applied by the ATC staff of Airservices Australia. There is no point in complaining in this forum about the situation. You need to get your facts together (hopefully as a united force of expert pilots) and approach CASA about the rules. This forum can't really help any of us. I will say however, that sometimes we tend to approach our flying like we drive our cars; impatiently and with some aggression. We pilots need to accept that there are rules that we must adhere to and there are rules that the ATC staff need to apply. If we or the ATCs choose not to accept the rules, then there are adverse consequences of that decision. Again, if we want the rules changed, approach CASA with workable and safe alternatives. This is really how it all began post WW2 when civil aviation became subject to such things as separation standards in the lateral, longitudinal and vertical modes.