Originally Posted by
MEdwards
Surprised I haven’t seen comments on the new approach procedures this year.
I thought they worked quite well. I was a victim of the huge confusion of, I think, 2018, and it seemed this year they handled a large crowd at the busiest times pretty well, and much more safely. With multiple defined holds, and apparently one additional improvised one at the town of Portage, they spread out the traffic and metered it well. The controllers at Fisk had to work harder, but it sounded like they had lots of help, including controllers watching ADS-B and even calling out people by N number who were (for whatever reason) bypassing the procedure.
I had hoped 2018 was an aberration and things would return to the normal of the last 2-3 decades. But no, I suspect we’ve seen the last of “find somebody to follow and join the line at Ripon.”