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Old 24th Feb 2018, 09:56
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Originally Posted by Havick from the USA
Have you ever flown into KLGA?
Here we goooo!! Yankee willy verse Ozzie willy!

Originally Posted by A Squared
Seems like if you had a DME tuned to a station on the airfield and you were looking at the distance and thinking about whether you were at a reasonable altitude for the distance, you wouldn't find yourself fully configured and less than 1200 ft above the airport elevation while still 9NM from the threshold. Is that not a thing anymore?
That is precisely why it's not like flying a Cessna.
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