Scary Controlling!
I think I saw one of the scariest pieces of controlling last night in OERK. Runway 33L in use and sitting at the end waiting for T/O clearance. 2 landing traffic fairly close together and in between the first a/c landing an a/c is cleared to line up and wait, landed aircraft vacates and departing a/c (think it was A300) given immediate t/o clearance, with DC10 on 2 mile final. Tower clears DC10 to land with departing a/c still rolling on the runway! approx 5 secs later departing a/c makes a call that they are airbourne (probably for the benefit of the tapes), and DC10 lands and complains of turbulence in their rollout with the departing aircraft at max power. We could have seen a very big accident here had the departing aircraft aborted its t/o.
Would you have landed your a/c with that separation or would you have thrown it away?
I haven't heard of any heavy a/c airport where arriving a/c are cleared to land with departing a/c still on the roll, maybe someone could comment?