On 3/24/2005 12:38, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Just an opinion on this if I may please;

This type of outburst on an open tower frequency could lead to a disaster.
Although it happens from time to time, it's not good professional
operational practice for several reasons, the most important of these being
flight safety.
The overriding reason is that for the time span...even seconds...of the
outburst, the tower operator can easily be distracted from something ELSE
that is happening in real time. Job one is traffic separation, NOT pilot
admonishment!
The professional approach to handling a situation like this one is for the
tower operator is realize up front that the "go around NOW" call will itself
be an emergency situation for both the aircraft lined up on the wrong
runway, and any traffic conflict the go around situation could conceivably
cause as the new and sudden situation develops in real time.
In other words, it's a potential traffic conflict issue happening in real
time, and that type of situation requires a calm professional approach so
that the right thing gets done NOW...and with as little additional stress
level as possible imparted on the offending aircraft AND others who might be
affected by the changing chain of events.
A tower frequency is no place for this type of admonishment or anger. Job
one is flight safety NOW! People involved in critical aviation professions
should know better....and thank God most of them DO!
You save this kind of thing for later.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot; CFI; Retired
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Well put, Dudley. I was thinking the same thing. It seems to me
that there is no place in an aviation frequency for any type of
anger-based response.

The other problem is that the controller was taking up a lot of
frequency time with his admonishments - time which the frequency
really couldn't afford.

Of course, I can only imagine what the controllers have to go
through day after day; especially in a busy area like the one
mentioned in the original post. However, if this controller's
reaction is *normal* for him, then perhaps he's in the wrong
job (or at the wrong tower).


--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL
Sacramento, CA