"Jose" wrote in message
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Ok. He's a new controller and he's nervous.


What's he nervous about?



He dropped his pencil behind the console after wondering if he
accidentally
may have let somebody cross the FAC outside the LOM, and he won't issue
the clearance until he knows it's ok.


Wouldn't a quick look at the radar scope tell him if it's ok?



As he reaches down to pick up the pencil he hit his head just as
his boss came in.


Why didn't he just take another pencil? Why did he hit his head? What does
his boss have to do with any of this?



He really wants to be a lot less polite to you, but he
limits himself to telling you to wait a moment (while he gets his ****
together).


Why does he want to be less polite to me? Is he just antisocial by nature?



It's my scenario, you can't say "it wouldn't happen" as a response.


Okay, but then my response can be just as unrealistic as your scenario.



In any case, it doesn't matter -why- it happens this way this time - as
the pilot you deal with it or get sent to the back of the line (which may
be the smartest thing to do at this point).

There's traffic following me. I'm not turning around.

There's always traffic following you. In this case EGF456 is also cleared
for the approach, but he may well be at 2500 feet coming from the west, or
9000 feet coming from the North. You don't know. He may well not be
"following" you.


But he's been following me all the way from ORD. How can he now be coming
from the west or the north if we departed ORD just three minutes apart? If
he's now coming from the west, how was the GRB controller able to descend
him below the 4000' traffic that's keeping me up at 5,000? If he's coming
from the north, how was the GRB tower controller able to launch that
departure?