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His dudeness
Flew an approach to then relatively new airport at Athens in a CJ1 - VFR, daytime. At about 700ft AGL the GPWS went wild and blared Pull up Go Around.
Looking out of the huge windows and verifying with RDR ALT, DME/ILS GP and my eyeballs I was fine, I continued against our SOPs.
I´m a cowboy, I admit it.
Ever seen children of the magenta ?
BTW, turned out to be a database issue
If I remember correctly there was a notam warning about false GPWS false warning at Athens.
It was caused by the database not yet updated and still showing a hill that was "shaved".
A slightly different situation.