Landing Procedures
Recently returned from holiday in Portugal. Whilst lazing round the hotel pool I was able to get a pretty good view of aircraft on approach to Faro airport.
One thing I did observe was that every Monarch aircraft had its undercarriage down when passing directly in front of me whilst virtually all other aircraft were considerably closer to the airport before the wheels became evident.
I would guess that the aircraft were between 1500 and 2,000 feet with maybe 5 to 8 miles to fly to the airport.
Is it the case that Monarch are over-cautious or are the other airlines cutting it a bit fine?