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Old 31st Mar 2024, 14:47
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The ILS 04 has always been a troublesome approach, going back decades. An FAA DC-3 Flight Check crashed testing back in the early ‘70s. Lots of buildings, hangars, the piers all make it problematic. The mins used to be about 400-1, now they’ve figured out a way to get them slightly lower. When it was 400-1, the reported weather would be 200 or 300 and mile, everybody would be getting in. An old squadron mate who was a B727 captain at the time told me it was “the most cheated on approach in the country”.

Of course, ceiling wasn’t governing, but it is indicative.
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