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Old 29th Jul 2010, 20:43
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Oh my aching arse.......ATC...Told him to "Turn immediately"....What sort of quality and confusing advice to a pilot under pressure was that?

Was this a professional controller or the bloody tea boy?

For Christ sake ATC in future give the poor disoriented pilot bugger a break and a clue!

This was not a simulator check ride real peoples lives were involved.

I think it would have been nice to have told him a direction to a heading in proper ATC radio speak....this pilot you had clearly observed was starting to get this approach badly wrong.

To think it used to be called an Air traffic control SERVICE!

This accident reminds me of the film Aeroplane when ATC pulled the plug to turn off the runway lights to "help" the pilot see the runway and land.
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