Flew into FNC recently as part of the monday
"rush" and the wind is tricky and variable but the runway is excellent.What is needed is some radar coverage especially when planning a descent.We were still at FL250 overhead the Porto Santo VOR(just over 30 miles to run)due to procedural cover and had to lose the height over the Funchal VOR.An
Air Luxor L1011 was doing touch and goes on 05 and 23 during the rush which made things very interesting!!They are now competing with TAP on the Lisbon shuttle and fly via Porto Santo.