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Old 16th Jul 2019, 11:39
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Callsign Kilo
 
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Could we maybe spare some defence for the PF here? I don’t profess to know the exact ins and out with this however could this be a result of training? Could this be a symptom of relatively unchallenging flying from ILS to ILS with almost exclusive reference to the flight director? 9/10 when you give someone with this sort of background a NPA to reasonably limited runway with little to no PAPI guidance, it isn’t going to go very well. The art of handling the final stages of an approach referencing pitch & thrust and eyeball mark one is somewhat lost on people. That’s something that’s needed to be addressed for considerable time now. Too many pilots don’t challenge themselves, allow themselves or are even allowed to be challenged. A symptom of modern airline flying that comes from the very top in many outfits.

I would also add that if this is simply an approach that got too low in error (rather than intention) then what was the PM doing?
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