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Old 7th Feb 2005, 14:03
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The report strikes me as rather too focused on blaming the Captain.

Afterall, he wasn't the only pilot in the vicinity at the time. If the (none too subtle) inference of the report is that he shouldn't have tried to land in the first place (because of the hostile ambient conditions) - then what does that say about all the other aircraft that did the same thing (tried to land) but were fortunate/lucky enough to get away with it?

The point that he did not arrest the sink rate, overlooks the well known fact that windshear sometimes overwhelms aerodynamics. That he 'did not' does not mean the same thing as 'he did not try'. And thus, if this airport is subject to unescapable windshear - what the hell is it still operating (full steam ahead) during typhoons for?

My F/O summed it up for me yesterday. "He (Lettich) tried too hard to get in"

My view is that this airport is dangerous in windy conditions. If the CAD is blithely going to 'blame the pilot', then the solution is simple. I most certainly am not going to try at all to get in here in poor conditions in future. I will make a token effort and shamelessly divert.
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