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I think this is a good idea.

The only negative I can think of is that it will generally involve accepting and responding to clearances on short final. I think adding more tasks to that critical stage of flight probably increases danger a little. Especially for low time student pilots like myself. That's particularly relevant in the U.S. because we have a higher percentage of student and private pilots than most of the world.

Overall, though, I'm fully convinced this would be safer.

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Even without anticipated clearance to land you have to define what "the runway is empty and yours" means.
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Yeah that gut wrenched ATC had to stay on point and ensure the next plane to land did a go around. Scary stuff.

Us lot have more people doing SRE ensuring p99 10ms for something frankly way less important. It is a nuts world.

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