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Old 19th October 2004 | 02:47
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Maxrev
 
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I'm with Choyo and Kaptin M on this one.

If you can't handle a visual landing, which if I remember correctly is about lesson 5 of the PPL then you have no place in the seat of an airliner.

Yes I absolutely take on board the various issues of traffic and responsibility for seperation and erosion of safety margin versus a full instrument approach, but if I'm properly briefed, have a PNF who's got his or her brain in gear and the weather's good and the traffic's light then I'm happy to to take a visual. It keeps your senses sharp and one day when the ILS goes tits up you'll need those senses.
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