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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: MIRSI hold - give or take...
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Had a W/S at around 500ft RW27 - got it in hand and levelled at 1.000ft - problem came when they tried to vector us, without passing an amended altitude. We had not yet passed D1.0 from BT, so were still level at 1.000. Politely asked if that was the ATCO's intention - followed by a very agitated instruction to climb to altitude 3.000ft. ;-)
So they get caught out by it, too - worth remembering that ATCOs are human too and are just as 'sprung' as we are by an unexpected missed approach.