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Old 29th Jul 2010, 20:56
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denlopviper
 
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theres only one turn avialible on the circle to land. you turn left, the controllers had already advised them that they had overshot to which the crew responded runway insight...the second call was turn left immdiately you are going into margalla

besides, to the 1st warning the crew responded runway insight and to the second one, they said we see it or on that lines. not much more a controller can do can he?

for the guys who dont operate to/from OPRN. you realistically have 1 turn avialible after rbeaking off for the circle to land.if you make a right hand turn to abort, you not only overfly the presidency, parliment etc, but you also overfly some very sensitive area after which you will be greated by the ISI at the stand. not to mention a right hand turn mean a minimum of alteast 110 degree turn just to get parallel to the hills. fastest way is to turn left where its less than a 80 degree turn to get parallel to the hills
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