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Old 11th October 2025 | 06:13
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Having flown a properly designed instrument approach, a pilot, at the minima's - and ONLY the pilot - is in the best position to assess the visibility between the aircraft and the touchdown zone and assess whether that visibility is suitable for them to continue the approach. Adding validity to this approach (please excuse the pun) airports across the globe have spent millions of dollars (or whatever the local currency is) to install lights facing up the intended approach path on final. Visibility sensing devices, no matter how highly developed, can never provide better information to a person who is not in the cockpit and, such, we should not prohibit pilots flying an approach to the minima's and making the appropriate decision about continuation of flight.

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