ACR X GIVEN LATE RWY CHANGE FOR MULTIPLE RWY OP PARALLEL RWYS APCHS.

Narrative

ATIS BROADCAST INDICATED ILS APCHS WERE BEING CONDUCTED TO RWYS 18L AND 18R. ACR X WAS INBOUND FROM THE ESE; WE BRIEFED AND SET UP FOR AN ILS TO 18L. UPON HDOF TO APCH CTL WE WERE GIVEN 'EXPECT 18R ILS' SO WE THEN RE-BRIEFED AND CHANGED EVERYTHING IN THE COCKPIT WHICH WAS NECESSARY TO EXECUTE THE 18R ILS APCH IN CVG. FOLLOWING SEVERAL POSITIONING TURNS AND A FREQ CHANGE TO ANOTHER APCH CTLR N; NE OF THE ARPT; WE WERE GIVEN A TURN TO 210 DEG; TOLD TO MAINTAIN ALT UNTIL ESTABLISHED; AND CLRED FOR THE ILS 18L APCH; ALL WITHIN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. AS THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY MENTION OF 18L SINCE CONTACTING APCH; I ASKED FOR A VERIFICATION OF THE RWY CLRNC. 18L WAS CONFIRMED; FOLLOWED BY 'I THOUGHT YOU HAD BEEN TOLD.' BY THE TIME FREQ AND ALT BUGS WERE CHANGED FOR THIS 'NEW' RWY WE WERE ABOVE THE GS; ALTHOUGH WE HAD MANAGED TO GET ON THE LOC. USING HIGHER THAN NORMAL DSCNT RATES TO ET DOWN AND CAPTURE THE GLIDESLOPE DECREASED SPACING ON TFC AHEAD; WHICH CAUSED THE TWR TO RESCIND LNDG CLRNC AFTER INITIALLY GIVING IT TO US. AFTER IT WAS CLR THAT THE ACFT AHEAD WOULD BE OFF THE RWY IN TIME; WE WERE AGAIN CLRED TO LAND. ON THE PHONE AFTER SHUTTING DOWN AT THE GATE; A SUPVR APOLOGIZED FOR THE HANDLING; ADMITTING THAT THEY WERE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH PARALLEL APCHS IN CVG; THAT THE CTLRS FORGOT TO RECLR US TO 18L ONCE THE SNOW-REMOVAL OPS WERE COMPLETED ON THAT RWY. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT CVG APCH CAUSES OR SUFFERS FROM AN UNUSUALLY HIGH NUMBER OF ABNORMAL SITUATIONS IN THE COURSE OF DIRECTING ARR TFC TO THE RWY ENVIRONMENT; BOTH IN VMC AND IMC. AFTER HAVING ONCE BEEN GIVEN A 60 DEG INTERCEPT TO THE LOC JUST INSIDE THE FINAL APCH FIX TO THIS SAME RWY ON ANOTHER OCCASION; I AM VERY VIGILANT WHEN GOING INTO THIS ARPT. I KNOW THAT THE ADDITION OF RWY 18L/36R IN JUST THE PAST COUPLE OF YRS HAS CAUSED MANY NEW PROC DEALING WITH PARALLEL APCHS; ETC.; BUT I FEAR THAT IF A REVIEW OF CURRENT PRACTICES AND PROC IN CVG IS NOT DONE WITH AN EYE TOWARD 'TIGHTENING THINGS UP CONSIDERABLY' THEN THERE MAY BE A VERY SERIOUS INCIDENT (S) IN THAT LOCATION IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I HAVE TRIED TO MAKE MY FEARS KNOWN TO SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL EACH TIME THAT I FELT ATC HANDLING PRACTICES WERE UNUSUALLY ABNORMAL OR UNSAFE. THE GENTLEMAN I SPOKE TO AFTER THIS LATEST INCIDENT COMMENTED THAT THEY HAVE NOW GOTTEN SOME EXPERIENCED CTLRS UP FROM ATL TO HELP THEM OUT; SO PERHAPS THIS SITUATION WILL BE CORRECTED IN THE NEAR FUTURE.