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Old 16th Nov 2008, 22:39
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john_tullamarine
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I'm just a dinosaur but, for what it might be worth -

(a) is not the Airbus technique similar in intent to the Boeing approach additives ?

(b) where we are looking at the potential for windshear, my observation has been that the majority of pilots will carry extra speed if the circuit wind is moderately different to that on the surface .. neither Boeing nor Airbus can read the real wind profile .. and the pilot retains the option of the miss if it turns out to be unmanageable.

The worry I see is the pilot who rigidly sticks to whatever protocol without thinking about what he/she is doing... as a wise checkie put it to me years ago .. "Lad, the Ops Manual should have a sentence on the preface sheet saying something like ..'to be read with an bit of commonsense ..' "
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