Originally Posted by
Bigiron
When you end up in places like Latacunga, Bogota, Kinshasa, Eldoret, Curitiba, Maastricht etc. at max landing weight and crappy weather it's nice to have some time in the RHS to acclimatize. I reckon I couldn't even have understood some of the ATC gibberish in some of the places we fly to if I hadn't been there a couple times already. BI
I didn't see any destinations in the USA in your post. The complete gibberish they sometimes talk there needs translating - talking in local acronyms, abbreviated frequencies, at the speed of light, in a soporific monotone.