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Old 1st Jun 2023, 09:04
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SAM 2M
 
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CFIT Risk 3D BARO-VNAV & 2D Approaches

The UK CAA has promulgated Safety Notice 2023-003 on this subject.

The Safety Notice is accompanied by a short Video

and a CAA Safety Files Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas...=1000615112984

As with so many things the first step is to understand WHY this Threat Exists, WHEN it can occur and HOW to trap/prevent it.

As well as making sure the QNH is correct, monitoring the Radio Altimeter (especially in the last few miles of the Approach) is a key component.

Proactive and informed Threat and Error Management (TEM) is vital to this case and the management of Flight Operations hazards and threats in general.

NUTA

N - Notice
U - Understand
T - Think
A - Ahead

Another point to be mindful of is that SOME aircraft are configured such that the ‘ONE THOUSAND’ and ‘FIVE HUNDRED’ Mode 6 audio calls are not RAD ALT DRIVEN, but are merely a calculation of the Height above the Runway based on the BARO Setting and known Runway Elevation. Just make sure you know how your a/c is configured in this respect. A comforting ‘ONE THOUSAND’ or ‘FIVE HUNDRED’ may not mean what you think it does!

For this reason, it is important that - inter alia - Flight Crew know what data source(s) ‘drive’ the various Audio Call-outs on approach and also what effect being in a Landing Configuration has on the protections offered by the TAWS.
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