Remember this?

MrPudding

Low cost? give them maps at least!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6251849.stm

MrP

Victor

I was actaully looking at a map of Antrim today.

Spot the airport.

There are 5.

BuffyBot

Low cost? give them maps at least!

Seem as the airline in question, Eirjet, is now out of business, it seems a bit late to give them anything..

Davidth88

I used to have a PPL ( Private Pilots Licence ) , and I would not ever set out to go to an airport without a real map in front of me.

Now I bet A320's have all sorts of gizmos and suchlike but I would have thought they should have a real map of their destination in front of them

Have a look at google earth around this area , the two airports are very close and on the same alignment ( the same prevailing winds of course ) .

This happened about 40 years ago at Heathrow a TWA 707 landed at RAF Northolt about 4 miles to the north. In those days they used to use gasometers as a visual aid , and the TWA captain used the wrong gasometer.

Are there any CPL ( Commercial Pilots ) out there that would care to comment ? ( obviously anon )

jjbrien

Victor wrote:

I was actaully looking at a map of Antrim today.

Spot the airport.

There are 5.

The airport is in Co. Derry not antril that airport is Aldergrove in your map.

Victor

jjbrien wrote:

The airport is in Co. Derry not antril that airport is Aldergrove in your map.

Oh, I know, but Aldergrove had an incorrect landing also at one stage.