Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
The article in aerotime is very well made and identifies the loops in the story . .
Traditionally in aviation "loops" are performed in the vertical, what the FR flight did would be probably be described as "orbits" or just perhaps "holds" by most of us here.
I know this sounds very pedantic but whilst the article gets top marks for presentation many of us here will hear alarm bells ringing when they see the author use "loops" in the context they have done. It might also bring into question how accurate the rest of the piece is (I see in the comments somebody has a gripe about the author switching between UTC and local, UTC plus 2).