Originally Posted by
tcasblue
Thanks,
Maybe you can input the altitudes and temperature for the approach that was used by the accident aircraft and see what descent angle is required.
Originally Posted by
deltahotel
I’ve just put some numbers into the cold wx app that we use - temp, elevation, VDA, MDA and it comes out with 3.32deg
HtH
Thanks,
The crew used 3.5 degrees. That might explain why they were low on approach if 3.3 degrees was the angle that should have been used. As we know, there was no crosscheck of altitude versus distance and their company procedures manual(used instead of Airbus issued manuals) did not require them to crosscheck altitude versus distance.
It would be interesting to see the airlines formula table(or whatever it is) that was used to come up with 3.5 degrees as the crew apparently followed this table properly..