Recommendations in Russian Final Report
On the last page of the English translation, recommendations are made firstly to the Polish military to tighten up their training and proceedures. Nothing controversial there, all need doing.
Secondly, general recommendations are made, all sensible.
A lot of discussion about the problems of lack of experience of the pilots, and the visitors to the cockpit probably exerting pressure on the PIC to "have a go". I found particularly interesting the discussion about the unstable approach, possibly being due to everybody looking out the window hoping to see something instead of somebody minding the instruments to maintain a steady glide path. Probably a VOR and radar information from the ground is not much help here, especially as altitude readouts are being given in the cockpit of the radio altimeter, which is perfectly happy as long as they are flying over a valley.....and then the TAWS kicks in and goes hysterical because they are heading directly for the higher ground. Ending up well below the height of the threshold, too late to go around by the time the PIC saw the birch trees.
One hope of improving international travel in the former Soviet bloc will no doubt be the decision of the Russians to use English as the primary language for aviation. Then we wouldn't have to worry whether the Polish aircrew had an adequate understanding of Russian instructions. Or exactly what form of approach ATC had approved. In this respect I very much look forward to the promised translation by Arrakis.
Now if we could only persuade the French to use English.....