Originally Posted by
DIBO
Well, because their tower is full of the latest, fancy equipment, so the single, very busy controller handling both GND and TWR, with 2 crossing active rwy's in use and a lot of activity going on even that late at night.
AS I understand it, neither of the crossing runways were active, nor was 28L. Only 28R was in use, hence they were landing on it (with several having just preceded them) with four to depart. This is why there were so many holding to depart.
For now, if You are tired:
Fly the ILS
You simply cannot do that when cleared for the FMS Bridge Visual 28R.
So how was it that when they came round again for their second approach they could be cleared for the ILS without issue.