Originally Posted by
Bleve
When you call 'Traffic Sighted' YOU are initiating the transfer of responsibility for traffic separation (ie workload) from ATC to yourself. Solution: Don't call Traffic Sighted (even if it is).
That seems to be a bit of a cop-out.
The poster indicated they were asked to sight the traffic.
Regardless the transfer of responsibility, you still have to put the aircraft in a position where appropriate wake turbulence avoidance can be achieved by the pilot, albeit now visually.
Using sight and follow as a "get out of jail free card" for making the sequence work is not quite in the spirit of its use. (And yes I worked ML APP for a number of years, so am aware of the scenarios where it can be seen as a saviour)