Originally Posted by
portmanteau
No criticism of ATC, theres not much else (useful) that you can say to an aircraft climbing out over a crowded taxiway.
No criticism from me either, but I do wonder whether "Go around" would have been a better response than "Yes you are still cleared" when the aircraft reported that they weren't seeing on the ground what the controller would expect them to see.
Could it have been a runway incursion?
"Maintain runway heading and climb X" would at least have allowed time to diagnose the discrepancy.
This controller, who isn't to blame, just failed an intuition test.
Is it at all possible they were just too darned busy to add any superior value, leaving them acting as nothing more than a slow computer?