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ViewTrick1002today at 10:56 AM3 repliesview on HN

Or just do like the rest of the world. No anticipated clearences to land, you only ever get a clerance when the runway is empty and yours.


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naberhausjtoday at 4:10 PM

I think this is a good idea.

The only negative I can think of is that it will generally involve accepting and responding to clearances on short final. I think adding more tasks to that critical stage of flight probably increases danger a little. Especially for low time student pilots like myself. That's particularly relevant in the U.S. because we have a higher percentage of student and private pilots than most of the world.

Overall, though, I'm fully convinced this would be safer.

bombcartoday at 5:25 PM

Even without anticipated clearance to land you have to define what "the runway is empty and yours" means.

mememememememotoday at 11:02 AM

Yeah that gut wrenched ATC had to stay on point and ensure the next plane to land did a go around. Scary stuff.

Us lot have more people doing SRE ensuring p99 10ms for something frankly way less important. It is a nuts world.