Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Mike Young" wrote in message
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I take it as acknowledgement and explicit permission to land long to avoid
wake turbulence, possibly needed and well adviced when they sandwich your
spam can between two heavies.



Is explicit permission needed to land long?


Although explicit permission isn't NEEDED when I was based at Dulles I
would always ask for permission to land long. 95% of the time I was
given it and the other 5% the controller would say something to the
effect "It would really help if you could exit the first high speed"
which I would do. It was really a matter of courtesy. The aircraft
that tried to make things easier for the controllers were also the ones
that the controllers would try to make things easier for the aircraft.
I would also get things likes "go to the intersection of Rt 7 and Rt 28
and circle, I'll get you in as soon as there is a gap", instead of
"remain clear the class B, I'll get back to you in 30 minutes".

Margy