Frederic and Oxford1G - I could not agree with you more!
A little bit of (UK) history would not go amiss here.
When Orion Airways started operating in 1980, many of the "procedures" were lifted from another leading charter company which shall remain nameless since quite a few the pilots who set up the Orion operation were from that company!
At CFU "Visual" RTOWs were published.
Not long after this BA (Airtours) started operating to CFU and could not understand why they were tech stopping for fuel on the way back to the UK but other operators were not.
CAAs attention was drawn to this fact and they investigated and promptly banned the use of "visual" RTOWs.
Have the goalposts changed again?
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