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Old 15th Mar 2021, 08:57
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Fursty Ferret
 
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You only have to look at the videos filmed from the flight deck on YouTube to realise that there's a big difference between what you might consider acceptable and what seems to be par for the course at other operators. Landing outside the touchdown zone; hands kept on thrust levers after V1, ignoring GPWS pull-up warnings and describing it as an "approach with the bells and whistles going off".

I occasionally dig out approach videos if I'm going somewhere new, since it's a handy way to get a quick look at what might happen. Unfortunately the end result is often that yet another airline ends up on my own no-fly list.
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