Regarding Pisa, old habits die hard. It's not a push and start. It's a request to basically start the flight plan.
I believe our briefs used to advise us to request start -10 before ready. It's a base so I assume this was all worked out between all the locals but I was led to believe the reason behind it was due to the process behind the scenes which the ground controller had to do to get your release from Milian. This used to cause delays years ago but its a streamlined process now and I believe our briefs don't mention this anymore.
Last edited by McBruce; 9th Jun 2013 at 17:13.