Originally Posted by
WHBM
Well we know the USA does not have much regard for ILS. The Asiana accident report shows the ILS was out of action at San Francisco, both main landing runways at the same time, for three months, "for construction". The fact that the Asiana crew had hardly any experience of visual landings outside their Sim sessions shows there are few if any other administrations who might do this.
Of all the factors to be blamed for that, the lack of an ILS shouldn’t be one. If you can’t execute a straight in visual approach, the ILS isn’t at fault. Reminiscent of the bad workman quarrelling with his tools…