Originally Posted by
Smalahove
When the captain becomes incapacitated, the FO immediately becomes PIC, and if he decides there's an emergency, he can land wherever the hell he likes.
In this case, yes. I took the post as a blanket statement that the FO can't land there. My bad.
I take it you have never been to Funchal. In theory in an emergency you are correct, in practice you wouldn't consider it. In normal ops FO is not permitted to land at Funchal and for good reason.