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Old 7th Aug 2015, 07:20
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Pinkman
 
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Biz jet owners & clients can be very difficult people to deal with. Who knows what time pressures he may have been under on this flight & what history there was between him & the people down the back.
Long day, a bit behind the drag, into the circuit with rather to many Joules - no problem, can get that sorted downwind. Bitching Betty/Moaning Minnie starts chipping away about traffic which you can't see, the RA cuts in and then 'changes' it's mind. Before you know it your on final, not configured, too fast, too high......
Which seat was the Jordanian Pilot sat in? And was somebody sat in the "other" seat..
I was born, raised, and worked in the sandpit and worked in an aviation related field there and elsewhere. Take the above and multiply by ten. To these people a pilot is nothing more than an airframe driver. As a youngster I once saw it unfold just like that with the owner shouting at the harassed pilot talking to ATC "Tell them no! Tell them no!" Not saying that it happened like that but if it did then decent CVR may be critical to working out the "why" as opposed to the "what".
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