Originally Posted by
caciara
Tkank you Good Egg, in Italy in our AIP we don't have this kind of procedure. I know a lot of european busy airports have the pre-departure clearance, to issue by mean CPDLC, but in our airports it is not available yet, so we are in an embarrassing situation when the pilot request departure clearance before being ready to start up.
Why is that a problem? Can you not just pass the clearance via radio??