Originally Posted by
Pugilistic Animus
Ours was 1000' in IMC 500' VMC...
Most U.S. carriers have gone to 1000 feet stable over the last decade it seems. Of course, if you don't realize that you are 400 feet RA eight miles out until the controller tells you and you hear the EGWPS stable approach criteria may not save you.
Also, the go around policy itself affects the decision to proceed with less than optimum safety margins. Some overseas carriers apparently still have you fill out paperwork if you go around. The trend in recent years has been for the safety folks to complain that we aren't doing enough go arounds off of unstable approaches.
Some discussion of the no fault go around policy in this 2008 thread:
No fault go around policy
At some third world expat jobs you'd be fired on the spot for an incident like the one in the GCAA DME report. I'm sure EK is not like that. At least the pilots were deadheaded back to base before they were fired I presume. Actually, I'd like to think that they were retrained and put back on the line but somehow I doubt it. Anybody know?
Will the GCAA issue a report soon on the JFK incident?