Capn Bloggs wrote:
Agree with ZeBedie; GA overkill for a non-theat. A dead cow or horse on the runway, yes but otherwise, pilot discretion.
Discretion has been removed from ATC at many airports because the airport operator/owner of the runway has decreed it such.
AFR4590 at Paris was probably the starting point for such decrees and airport companies covering themselves against almost every threat, however small.