Bedder
Yes, We landed between 4 and 5 miles behind the preceding I recall but HOW that was achieved is the problem.
You can't just point aeroplanes at the runway at 12,000 ft and 35 miles to run and then bark a speed reduction at them. The laws of physics just don't allow that. i thought that's the sort of thing you guys/girls are taught? Maybe not any more.
Its just the totally incoherent and incongruous combination of thinking that has me baffled sometimes. It often feels like we are just pointed at the tail of the aeroplane in front without regard to really how far in time/distance we really need to travel.
Please, i'm all ears. Feel free to add to the thousands of words that have already been written. I simply don't believe some controllers are thinking logically from an aircraft performance point of view sometimes.