Yellow Shark (post #18) and qsyenroute (post #21) - forget the political correctness here. Tripoli ATC is dire!! Trained in the UK means nothing when you have a certain mindset in life. And they will blame everyone but themselves - it's the 'Maghreb way'....
x-feed - I would say it's not a 330 problem at all! The CX incident was a RR problem, not the aeroplane
The FMS line selectable VOR 09 for TIP works fine as long as you're at the platform altitude before the automatics capture the profile and go into FINAL APP mode. I've seen it happen myself there - in fact it's known that the FINAL APP mode won't capture on most line selected RNV approaches unless you are at platform on these aircraft.. The answer - if visual handfly the aeroplane, else go around and start again..
So - what do they do with all the gazillions of oil money? A decent ILS system wouldn't be much to ask for would it? Oh heck - this is LIbya we're talking about here
