you have a choice of a precision or visual approach what is the professional answer? Which is the safer approach?
Wake up and smell the napalm. Most people know there are places where decisions are effectively made for you. You don't HAVE to carry out a visual approach but it will help your case.
It's not about safety, it's about movements per hour, shaving off flight hours, saving that 0.5t of fuel, noise abatement over some MP's house, whatever. The bean-counters dictate and the drivers do.
If at Sydney airport (the be-all and end-all, as we all know) during parallel ops, they ask if you're visual on a CAVOK day and you say "No" because you need to fly your full ILS procedure to avoid wetting yourself then you'll find yourself out doing scenic laps of the beaches while others who CAN fly a visual approach are vectored in.
I think visual approaches in borderline conditions in Europe are a bit more risky from the point of view that there is a very high density of large, paved runways (eg southern England) not all of which are civil, suitable or useable, in close proximity to target airports
So you're saying it can happen, this landing at wrong airport business. I thought you were all so smart?? So why the "bashing"?
I love the blank look of incomprehension on these guys' faces when they hear the APP guy say, "Make visual approach, not below the glideslope," or however they put it. It's hilarious for about 5 seconds or so, until I have to explain how to land the a/c without any needles.
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Slim20 you should be nice to Americans on "your" beloved pprune or the Americans might remove you from "their" internet.