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Old 23rd Jun 2012, 13:08
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deefer dog
 
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Two years ago we were tasked to fly to dusseldorf then egglesbach. During a three hour layover in dusseldorf I took a look at the charts for egglesbach to prepare for our arrival in what were likely to be marginal conditions.

The charts were a confusing mess and so full of contradictions that I decided to visit the CAA office to get a copy of the AIP. The two gentlemen i met were at first very helpful but were not able to find anything. They then offered me help with the charts we had printed from egglesbach web site. They too were confused by what they read. Two pilots and two German CAA employees sat on the ground couldn't figure out half of what was going to be required of us later in the day at a time when we would be scrabbling around barely 1000 ft agl, and at 200 kts.

We decided to land elsewhere.
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