Originally Posted by
Airmann
Have done countless flaps/slats jammed scenarios in the sim, and not once has anyone suggested using a higher minima. For that matter landing with flaps/slats jammed at close to fully retracted may well put the aircraft above max speed for CAT D even. But our company charts only have C or D on them because that's all we have in the fleet. I Don't know if a CAT E or more even exists?
Airman,
There are no Cat E civil aircraft, and I have never seen a published E minima.
Interestingly, the EGLL control zone size was established all those years ago in the anticipation of civil Cat E being developed, to cover a Cat E circling. It is about time it was re-sized to reflect the real wold of the last 40+ or more years.
Amazingly, the initial zone proposed for the new Sydney (AU) West airport is more or less the same size, ie: to cover a maneuver that will never be flown by an aircraft that does not and will not ever exist .
But one can never be "too safe", can one, no matter what destruction of existing GA traffic and existing airfields results.
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