why do aircrew still ask for B/A figures on a wet runway?
we have been told not to give them because they are unreliable, yet some crew still insist they need them before making an approach-is this another mismatch between mats1 and ops manuals?
as the previous post said the whole slush/wet snow/ice nightmare is almost upon us again-trying to guess whether you can give out the figures or not, what the contaminant really is-at least we can go out ourselves and have a look, not a practice available to many nats controllers I guess. In fact we have found that often the best way of discovering what aircrew can/cannot accept is to take them out on the inspection and see for them selves(not a lot of help for arrivals!)