Originally Posted by
RAT 5
how can you line up on a strip of concrete, at night, that you can't see too well anyway, that doesn't have appropriate lighting.
Well it's more likely once you've had that Notam that the approach lighting is U/S.
How far out were they when cleared for this odd, last minute offset visual? To an unfamiliar crew that would be a huge cheese hole, right there, if it's last minute and unbriefed.
Reading the flight times above, they were an hour late, due before midnight, getting there after midnight. Does the noise abatement approach only come into force at a certain time.