Originally Posted by
Uplinker
If you think this, how do you ever land at night ?! On clear nights we can see the runway from miles away. Maintaining separation from a very close parallel approach at night is not so easy, hence, presumably, the Lufthansa restriction - probably made by their flight safety team, not just 'some bloke in an office'.
I haven't been to SFO in a while, but from what I recall, this approach is as easy as it gets. Keeping the other plane in sight isn't necessarily hard either. You're given speeds to fly, and then they basically tell the bigger plane not to overtake the smaller one on the parallel. To your point, there's nothing inherently unsafe about a visual approach. If that were true, you'd also have to ban flight into IMC.