With Teutonic thoroughness
 

Excuse me, maybe I don't get it. Where in the world would a FAA investigate such an "incident" ?

LBA untersucht Air-Berlin-Flugmanöver in Düsseldorf

Got a risk assessment for that there flyby Maverick?

Still what could possibly go wrong, it's not as if it was on a flight full of passengers...oh :ugh:

What could possibly go wrong? :}

Tower view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bZaghb1CU
Terminal view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWNtRusb01k

Overheard many years later in a car near Dusseldorf:

People with their smartphones who don't know anything about aviation :rolleyes:

Again, someone with a phone is an expert on aircraft go-around techniques. And there was me thinking a little knowledge, experience and examinations were needed. Silly me. :ugh:

A load of twaddle. :*

Hard to tell, but it looks textbook to me.

https://youtu.be/eKfo1We2YHE

Just the video

Here they didn't care.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kle80KB_s3I&t=28s

Seems tower was okay with it!

Pilot announcement onboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxaVSbsZt3M

The appalling times we do live in... higviz west idiots and sumsuch do dictate our "wellbeing" - a perfectly gentle, nice and safe flyby on a last flight of an airline is now a problem ?

OMG...

Final landing of AB long haul flight.......

What exuberance? He had got the permission that in case of a go-around (for which absolutely no permission or explanation or anything is required) he could fly a visual pattern instead of following the standard missed approach procedure. And this is what he did, thereby not exceeding pitch and roll angles for visual maneuvers.

Do you need to ask? Maybe that maneuver would be OK in Panama, but in many countries it'd be unacceptable at an air show, let alone with an aircraft full of pax. The tower video shows how low he was when he passed over the terminals. Cool! Yeah, but a grown-up professional pilot shouldn't fool around like that.

Whether or not they investigated the Royal Air Maroc takeoff is irrelevant.

OK, I'm only an amateur, but most of us when we fly visual patterns climb out straight ahead to a reasonably safe height before turning crosswind!

Seem like the "Guard police" has transformed into "the last flight visual pattern police". What about fire trucks spraying at retirement flights? Shocking abuse of emergency equipment? Lets not kill all the fun in this world...

I have no idea about their SOPs but ours say "no turns below 400ft". That would be 120m and I guess he was not lower than that when he turned. But maybe there was a large flock of Canada geese in front of him which made him start the turn a little earlier for the sake of wildlife preservation. Who knows.

Drone avoidance maneuver?

Who knows.....

The article says "Der Deutschen Flugsicherung zufolge habe der Pilot vor dem Landeanflug im Falle eines Durchstartmanövers die Richtung angefragt. Die Lotsen hätten daraufhin die Linkskurve freigegeben. In welcher Höhe der Pilot schließlich abdrehe, liege in seiner eigenen Verantwortung."

Which roughly translates to: According to DFS (German ATC) the pilot had queried the direction in the case of a go-around before initiating the approach. The controllers granted permission for a left turn. The height at which the pilot starts the turn is his own responsibility."

Somewhat lower ... Düsseldorf tower is 85m high (it says here) and they're looking down at him as he turns ...

Yawn................