Originally Posted by
scifi
Are there any Approach Plates for this airfield...?
I just wonder why a commercial airplane carrying 70+ persons should be doing a 90 degree intercept to a 1 mile final. Has the concept of a 'Stabilised Approach' been forgotten in this case..?
Better not fly into Nice then. (Okay, a bit more than a mile there). Avoid JFK Carnarsie approach, the visual break off for 30 at KIAD and 34 in Salzburg.
It's called a circling approach. They are actually designed to be close in to the airfield for obstacle protection of which there is much in Nepal. Normal stabilisation criteria is standard plus wings level by 300ft above airfield. Clearly this flight became unstable in the most extreme manner but circling approaches are flown safely around the world every day and make air travel possible to many often remote places