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Old 29th Mar 2019, 09:07
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poldek77 Asking for a visual at any point and doing a straight in is a legal option. Given the profile, meeting your sinkrate and final descent angle criteria looks possible under the suggested conditions. Impossible to evaluate proximity to obstacles from the charts, that's what MK1 eyeballs are for.

The amount of refute from the chief pilot depends on his MK1 them other round organs 😬, but if you could keep things neat... and briefed!

The danger in doing things outside the box is if you screw up, the PM has no previous knowledge or guidelines to evaluate how far off the planned trajectory is the situation unfolding, and how critical the deviation is.

For anything non standard, the basic foundation is to set the out-of-bounds lines first and empower the colleague for making the right calls should the situation require. The chances of PF self-correcting are not high enough due to various HF.
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