Best part of two decades operating into the Canaries regularly and witnessing the ‘antics’ of the locals….I really don’t know where to start….low level visual circuits in sh*tty weather at night….ever seen a civil transport doing a Khe Sahn approach?…I’ve seen Binter do it several times after f*cking up their absurdly tight visual approaches. The problems partly stem from the local ATC giving preference to Binter over all others, and the crews always pushing it to comply with ATC’s favouritism…for example, a stream of charter jets on finals to a Canaries airport with 5 miles separation…much babbling in Spanish and a Binter ATR doing the aeronautical equivalent of a handbrake turn, diving into the sequence, about 2 miles ahead of landing traffic (clearly with ATC’s permission, but due to Spanish being spoken, a bit of a surprise to the jet on finals!).
They WILL kill people…don’t do it!
Thanks for sharing. I thought it may have been maintenance. My lawnmower sounds better than some of those ATR’s!!!!
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