Originally Posted by
Smooth Airperator
800ft out of a busy international airfield just seems wrong. Airmanship wise.
There is nothing wrong with 800ft. The problem in dence airspace is the SID that you won’t be following. From that point of, 800ft or 1500ft doesn’t make any difference, your track change is the main problem. Even worse, you’re forcing your crewmember to be non standard and you’re deviating from a ’calculated’ vertical path.
Seems more like a false sense of security. It’s not because you’ve been doing it for all this time’ all this time it was the safest option. We should learn from the past.