Squealing Pig:
"Crews in the West not under pressure from top brass, I dont thinks so:-
http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/65F3C...00_29jun94.pdf
Prince Charles Prang in Isle of Islay - June 1995"
I didn’t say that there is never any pressure but the captain should be strong enough to resist; if he doesn’t, then I would question his suitability for the job.
I was a 146 training captain myself and there is no way that I would have allowed Charles to land in that situation. Indeed, I doubt that I would have been happy to land it myself given the prevailing conditions of wind and runway length. I would imagine that Charles himself would have understood that I was right, embarrassing as that might have been for him to be told that he just wasn’t up to it. But I wouldn’t be very competent at making small talk with civic dignitaries; everyone to his own
Jack