Originally Posted by
Jughead
Out of these dozens of wrong airport landings, what is the tower saying to the inbound aircraft? "Cleared to land", (but I don't see you anywhere, I guess you're there?). I realize some of these were austere locations, or maybe outside of official Tower hours, but otherwise, shouldn't a Tower controller be wondering where the airplane is, that he just cleared to land? And maybe pimp the pilot as to his whereabouts?
Maybe I'm expecting too much, but the McDill C17 got me wondering the same thing - how do you miss that?
You are correct. The tower is supposed to see the aircraft out the window or on radar before giving a landing clearance, otherwise the aircraft is to be advised, "Not in sight from the tower."