Were you at the conference? I would have bought you a beer. All I can do is
report what went on at the conference...I am neither a controller nor an FAA
bigwig.

Bob Gardner

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Controllers as a group are unhappy with approach designers, who do not
work
with ATC facilities when designing GPS approaches.

The designs aren't so bad, it's the godawful names of the fixes they come
up
with.

The controllers would
prefer that pilots ask for alternative miss procedures that would keep
them
in closer before they initiate the approach.

Pilots don't have to ask for it, controllers can assign them. Controllers
can deny the use of a published missed. For example do you think at any
major terminal you will do a published missed?