Originally Posted by
ApolloHeli
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I concede to your point (highlighted in bold), maybe with different automation guidelines they might have been able to pull it out of the bag once the EGPWS starting howling if the IAS had been kept above ETL by virtue of different SOPs.
So let’s re-run the approach with the same crew, same weather, same monitoring of IAS but with one difference - SOP mandated, and company culture supported, the use of IAS mode during such approaches. The accident would not have happened. I’m not sure how much clearer it could be!