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Old 4th Mar 2019, 16:19
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Originally Posted by Denti
That paints a somewhat more rosy picture than is reality. Many of those approaches are APV Baro approaches, the number of airlines using them is extremely small. Quite often it is Swiss and/or Air Baltic with their A220, but not with any other type. Apparently the A220 is equipped for that, the rest of airline usable aircraft is not (yet). And then there is small airports without any airline service at all. Therefore it might have some use, but mainly non-commercial ops and the approaches were introduced in a desperate attempt to lure in some more traffic which hasn't really worked.
It's not only the A220 that is able to fly LPV. In AirBaltic the whole fleet of Q400's is also equipped (and a few of them have been equipped for a few years) and a lot of the pilots are trying to fly LPV approaches as often as possible.
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