Trust me, I would win any pi**ing competition, with the amount of practice I've had. Twice today, at FL050
Piper.Classique, my apologies
And as regards legality, the captain is always, above all, responsible for the safety of his aircraft, passengers and self - if he doesn't look after those, THEN he is "endangering the safety" and that's illegal (and worse than any "technicality", I submit)!
I agree, but how do you square that with all the various rules about where one can and cannot land. PPR, PPR for Customs, PPR for this and that. Some places (in Europe) you will get into only by declaring a mayday. Tricky! BTW I believe that most airports that are "PPR" are probably acting illegally.