gonebutnotforgotten
What are you talking about? What unhelpful attitude from ATC?
This crew filed a flight plan that made no mention of the manoeuvres that they were planning to fly, and was described by one controller as a "disguised test flight", so who was tripping up whom?
It seems that another aircraft from the same company had played that game earlier in the day, creating coordination issues for ATC, with a "few measly 360s". So ATC were not about to be bitten twice. Whose fault is that?
If the crew had requested a "real" test flight, I'm pretty sure that ATC would have obliged, but as the crew didn't seem to know what they were doing themselves, how could they?
Sorry, ATC didn't trip anyone up in this case, and I fail to see how ATC contributed to the A330 loss in Toulouse.
Have you just got something against French ATC?
TTFN