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Old 5th Aug 2010, 21:29
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Originally Posted by Reticent
Coming in to land at AMS from the south he kept saying "he is bringing us in from the north" as if to enlighten me.

Talk of spatial/situational unawareness.

When I asked if he wanted the automatics on for the ILS he said "no, I failed my last check-ride", or something to that effect. He was all over the place, weaving back and forth, hand-flying and the controller asked us "Pakistan XXX, are you established"?

All I could say was "Sir, we are establishing right now".
- if that was possible in PIA it may well go a long way to explaining what happened here.
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