"That must have been a regular approach,"
Read the report - the inaugural flight.
"No analysis of company procedures to re-initialise the IRS on the threshold prior to takeoff "
Do you "re-initialise" the IRS or do you update it on the threshold? However, as you say, it wasn't relevant as they should have been on raw data seeing it wasn't updating via GPS.
"Could have been flown as a CDFA using the DME for a profile"
Is the DME valid when it's an offset approach - in those circumstances DME does not represent track miles to run? Having said that, it is possibly better than nothing.
"but there appeared to be no SOPs for conducting it".
And that comes from where? Looking at their network, they operate into Ponape (offset approach to the east) and recently, I'm told, had Vila in their operation operating for Vanuatu Airlines (another offset approach onto the south-eastern runway). I expect they would have offset approaches adequately covered in their SOP's.
"As usual, lots of lessons for us all, pity that the standard of the report and lack of punchy criticisms/recommendations by the ATSB means learning opportunities lost..."
Couldn't agree more.
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Last edited by ivan ellerbai; 21st Mar 2018 at 10:36.
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