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Old 17th Mar 2018, 16:00
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Smokey Lomcevak
 
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At our outfit, we're not authorised to fly the RNAV V Visual in anger, despite it not being denoted 'AR' and us having the ability to fly certain radius-to-fix procedures. So it will be an ILS to break in poor weather conditions.

In good weather conditions I find the offer of a visual approach, joining RH downwind, and heavily 'inspired by' the RNAV V procedure works nicely, and keeps out of the way of the departure track. Flown in basic modes/manual, but with the FMC ticking over in the background, we get a nice accurate vertical deviation indicator to the runway. Much lower workload, too.

For circling on the airbus, we couple to the glideslope as normal. I appreciate this refers to Boeing, but in our case there is no backstop to stop us descending though our DA.
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