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Old 14th Sep 2005, 06:42
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error_401
 
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Lucky me - I speak English (at an acceptable level) and Italian.

Often flying regulars ALL-FCO/PAR-CAT/BOL-CAG. Some places are worse than others. Extensive use of non standard language.

Funny procedures together with poor radar makes them mess our descents. Getting into PAR (Parma) they usually send us into the hold at 6000' or above. Try to cancel IFR and get into the place visually - no chance. First had to report in the holding inbound...

... then finally got cancellation and dropped the plane (in a very safe way) to 1'500 ' AGL for a nice visual. He, he one can do that in an empty Cargo ATR 72...

Other day got stuck in Ciampino. None of the 7 planes asking for the reason the airport was closed after an accident got an answer. I then asked in italian and got the full information available.

Want to enjoy flying in Italy? - Learn italian and try to figure out why they sometimes do funny things. (Most often has to do with poor radar, therefore they have silly high vectoring minimas)
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