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Re: Heavy in the tower pattern
Posted: 02-09-2010, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ClayZ1989 View Post
You cannot use visual seperation in lieu of wake turbulence seperation. We deal with this issue alot here at dover as we have all C-5's and C-17's. If you turn a heavy inside of an aircraft on final you have to provide them the proper wake turbulence seperation on final. 7110.65 5-5-4
i dont think i agree with this. you can instruct a pilot to maintain separation behind a heavy.

you as the controller can not maintain it. only the airplane can... is that what you are getting at?