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Old 6th Dec 2023, 16:57
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Originally Posted by funkydreadlocks
Trying to understand how they ended up over Villejuif. I’m guessing a STAR? But that would be a hold or point south east of the airport, and they were coming in from the Northwest. I guess they could have been doing practice approaches, since the instructor was an MEIR instructor
Yes, it is one of the standard IFR approaches to Toussus Le Noble , but, yes...idiotic given GPS approaches to have one that is over populated areas like that for light aircraft that have no need to fly an outbound 20 NM leg before reversing course.
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