FAA to be phasing out "position and hold" in the US

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Gary Drescher wrote:
I've never felt worried about someone landing on me while I'm holding in
position at a controlled airport, but perhaps the risk is more
significant than I'm aware. Have many such collisions actually occurred?

You betcha.

Not to dispute your remark, but is there an available source of information
as to how many such collisions there've been?

As a matter of fact, there IS NO POSITION AND HOLD AT
NIGHT as a result of one such crash.

Interesting. I didn't know position-and-hold wasn't allowed at night. That
makes sense though--not only is it more dangerous at night, but on average
it's also less useful, since airports tend to be less busy at night.

Gary