Originally Posted by
orca
To me it would appear odd not to train to save ones back from ejection and the local populace the chance of collecting a jet - with the obvious caveat that in both training and actual emergency one curtails the exercise at the appropriate point.
So how doe one define the appropriate point ?
My suggestion of low key as a “gate” ( and if you cant make the height for low key due cloud cover, extra speed at a lower height, similar total energy, would work) was jumped on by Viking.
If you dont make low key, go around. If you do, continue to, say, a min height before GA of 500. Two gates.
We civilian guys had a low key on EVERY approach, needing to be stable, configured etc., by 1000 feet or its a go around. Very little discretion there
Why not a similar stipulation for a PFL, it is after all, only training and presumably on a PRACTICE, the engine is still running making a go around routine.
Absolutely no need to stop training, but limit the risk, which, as this fatal accident has shown, does exist under the current procedures.