Originally Posted by Check Airman
SFO is noise sensitive? Didn’t know that.
Why else would the Quiet Bridge be cranked 9° off the CL (with no published waypoints)?
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Originally Posted by Stilton
This visual approach into SFO has lateral and vertical guidance provided by LNAV / VNAV
No waypoints on the FAA chat that I can see for the QB... I can understand LH not wanting to do a visual at night based (what's not) on the chart.
Originally Posted by Stilton
Yet somehow widebody operators flew the checkerboard approach into Kai Tak, in all sorts of weather transitioning to a pure visual at low level after such long flight times, a far more challenging approach by any measure ‘acrobatics’ seriously?
Get out of the dark ages. Do you seriously think that that approach would be allowed now? For goodness sake...