The RT wasn't "that" bad, well, the female controller wasn't so hot (at least at RT, the rest is supposition
) and the Swiss pilot could have tried something simpler like "engine shut down" when it was obvious the controllers vocabulary didn't seem to encompass bird strike.
What I found more alarming was the "tick tock do you hear the clock" Swiss mentality driving the ship happily round the pattern for a 10 mile final whilst twice reporting vibration/problems in BOTH engines
Don't they remember the Ryanair accident in Ciampino or remember that "tick tock complete the checklist " mentality is sometimes inapproppriate (like when your cockpit is on fire
) and that arriving on the ground ASAP should be considered.
Weather sounded OK ish for a perhaps radar assisted 180 and reland on the reciprocal (which was actually offered) if BOTH donks were
wounded ? ?