Originally Posted by ATC Watcher
the action of the previous YAK crew, as you correctly point out could have led the controller to think that, "what the heck" those Poles are doing what they want anyway " or something similar.
According to the ATC tower tapes (to be published by Polish side next week)
not only was he sure, that Polish pilots have superior skills, but he,
and other people in the tower believed, that Polish government AC
are equipped with some special devices allowing them to do
such precise manoeuvres under such VIS conditions.
When they have seen on youtube some films of the NATO cruise missiles hitting
the door of a hangar in IMC using GPS, they could have easily believed,
you can hit the runway touch-down zone, which is slightly bigger...