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Old 30th June 2005 | 22:32
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Carnage Matey!
 
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In some parts of the USA the R/T is like an international rap contest. At places like LAX you can find yourself vectored to any one of four parallel runways from 25+ miles out, positioned high and fast, with closing heavy traffic in close proximity whilst trying to reprogram the FMC after a runway change and configure and decellerate the aircraft, all after an 11 hour flight at 4am on the body clock time. Trying to pick out a small light aircraft on the overloaded R/T or visually acquire some fairly low intensity strobe lighting against a busy city background adds a whole lot of workload at an already busy phase of flight. It's an unnnecessary distraction that could lead to a major, and wholly avoidable incident.
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