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Old 13th Dec 2008, 20:28
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777RamAirTurbine
 
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Talking My shot at it...

Alright, my shot at this:
You know you’re flying in S. America when:

- Most of your approaches have a “committed to land” Altitude
- Your routes and airports have High Altitude engine out procedures
- There is a huge difference in “Radar Contact” and “under Radar surveillance”
- ATC asks you to confirm your Aircraft registration (for billing information)
- ATC requests you to reduce speed but increase your sink rate
- Center Control tells you to maintain maximum forward velocity during your descend but approach asks you to slow to final approach speed 26 miles out.
- Even Instructor Pilots waste 3800ft of runway floating just to land as smooth as possible so that the passengers clap.
- You’ve been to all these interesting places but were too tired to go to see the attractions.
- The FO helps out the Captains on their Check ride and still gets a nasty critique.
- The FO in a wide body aircraft looks so young, the FA’s call him “THE UM”!
All the best...
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