Originally Posted by
Chesty Morgan
All this chest beating about visuals is testosterone fuelled nonsense.
Anyone can fly a visual approach, it's not difficult. However, we are paid ro follow company SOPs not disregard them.
I'm curious to know what all you SFO mouth pieces would do if some foreign ATC unit requiredyou to break one of your company SOPs...?
I’ve been careful not to fault the crew on this one. They had their hands tied by SOP. Some manager at DLH thinks a visual approach isn’t safe, for some reason.