I totally understand why that might seem disrespectful, but I imagine it’s mostly paying respects. After all, people recreating tragedies doesn’t mean they are mocking them.
I’m only saying this because I’m someone who tends to always assume the worst and I’m trying to work on giving people the benefit of the doubt. Now if they were clearly mocking the event, I wouldn’t hesitate to judge, but simply flying the route seems to be more of a tribute or memorialization of the tragedy
I agree, but sadly there are likely still a few people who are recreating the flight because they find events like this funny. I do think it’s fine if the people are doing it out of respect and to commemorate everyone who sadly lost their lives.
Back on topic though, I really don’t like the people whose callsign does not match their aircraft. Both with the wrong airline callsign and with adding heavy on an Embraer and other clearly not heavy jets
People that fly airlines in unrealistic locations. For example Ryanair b738 livery flying from Rio de janeiro to Sao Paulo.
Also people that don’t observe the semi circular rule of maintaining Odd flight levels when flying heading 000°-179° and Even flight levels for 180°-359°
To be fair, the semi circular rule doesn’t always apply, and is sometimes a recommendation. For example, in Italian airspace, cruising altitudes aren’t decided based on whether an aircraft is heading east or west, it is based on whether an aircraft is heading east or south. Other times in real life, aircraft fly at odd altitudes heading west, and even altitudes when heading east possibly due to airspace restrictions, or ATC’s request. An example could be a flight from Singapore to Hong Kong, which uses even flight levels when flying east over Vietnam, while sometimes the flight uses odd flight levels heading east. In general, people should stick to the semi circular rule, but there might be times where that’s not realistic. I’m sure there are a lot of people who randomly choose their cruising altitudes though, I nearly crashed into one mid-flight a few days back.