Originally Posted by
KayPam
Any flight to Nice (NCE) RWY22 will require a curved final approach without automation. Surely you can still refuse visual or sidestep at the cost of a reduced operations efficacy, but some approaches remain and still require good manual handling skills.
Flights to Corsica might often require visual as well.
NCE is actually a good example. I wonder how long before they introduce RNP AR approaches to 22.
Originally Posted by
Check Airman
That’ll be quite dependent on where you fly. You do autolands quite often. At my base, it’s rare enough to actually NEED an instrument approach, let alone an autoland. The last time I did an instrument approach at my base was 4.5 years ago.
The original argument was that there is a need to fly a visual approach or a raw data instrument approach a lot of times. I presume an instrument approach is available to your base, should you need one?