Originally Posted by
Meester proach
In this day and age the fact an offset VOR to circling minima is seen as acceptable at a major airport is the first problem. Its the first hole in the cheese.
And if you think JFK ATC is some of the best in the world - well only if the criteria is rudest or fastest talking , least intelligible
The ATCO was neither rude, fast talking, or non-intelligible. He did issue a low altitude alert which was followed by the A388's continued descent and another transmission about the aircrafts "extremely low on the approach."
I know it may be hard to imagine but maybe, just maybe he prevented a CFIT event.