But of course Bose, I wasn't trying to say that landing at Gatwick from the airways was easy...you're completely right...the controllers did make it easy for me; I just turned up at the Midhurst VOR, was told to route to MAY and it was vectors from there.
It wasn't something I did lightly...I'd done ILS approaches (under the hood) into big airports in the US and was aware that the most important thing was to do as I was told and be professional on the radio. Which is more than can be said for some dodgy Russian sounding crew who were in front of me in the sequence
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