Originally Posted by
212man
Yes me too. Hopefully a historical anomaly that we have passed. Some of the worst abuse I’ve experienced came from a client that supposedly championed safety! But they were happy to let their jet fleet fly into a VFR airfield they owned, using a made up approach we as the aircraft operator had put in the FMS. Often landing in Cat 1 conditions. Then we as the resident rotary (of their owned aircraft) operation got slated for not flying in the same conditions. No guesses who..,,,
Saw one group in a 4 engine turboprop do that at a jungle strip. Their handy-not so dandy hand loaded approach leading them to break unexpectedly out of the clagg deep in a small valley surrounded by mountains exactly 60 nm north of where they expected to be. A demonstration of max power/max rate/max angle climb procedures saved the day. No alarm bells had gone off when 1) They couldn’t contact the camp on the VHF and 2) The WX radar showed nothing but red with the odd flash of magenta and yellow. 3) The ADF was tuned to a music station in the capital far away over the mountain range and probably on ANT not ADF.
A very shaken crew finally arrived at the camp which was located on a relatively flat river plain and was enjoying 1500 broken and 10 miles + vis.
The Capt ( an colonel in the country’s Airforce, which had the annoyingly bad habit of leaving smoking wreckage strewn about ) blamed it all on the co-pilot and flight engineer of course.
Now what error could have lead them to be exactly 60 NM too far North? LOL.