Vueling - ex military pilot?
I recently flew with Vueling from Heathrow to Bilbao. I am slf but a licensed aircraft engineer of 35 years and now a very frequent flyer especially on 320s - BA, easyjet, Aer Lingus, Air France etc, so used to normal ops with all these guys.
A few characteristics of the flight - on take off, throttles slammed to full power, rotation seemed to be at higher speed than normal, then rapid rotation whereupon aircraft leaped into the air at extreme angle of attack. This hardy seemed necessary coming out of LHR. Banking always seemed erratic and rapid to extreme angles. Approach into Bilbao was nose down, throttles back, spoilers out and gear down, no flap and drop like a stone. Again was this strictly necessary going into Bilbao where we flew straight in and had no hills to navigate.
My interpretation was this was an ex military pilot who was still thinking he was flying an F16 or similar.
Be interested to hear your views.