Originally Posted by Jambo Buana
The question I ask is why do pilots with the same licence attained through the same system have such varying opinions on such a fundamentally important area? I think the answer lies in licensing/examinations etc that in my day were still concentrating on areas such as Omega nav even though it had been withdrawn!
Yes, I agree. This is the question which summarises the 'reason d'etre' for this post. We as pilots need to question the whole system of contaminated rwy perf calcs. I for one (a trainer) have spent a lot of time on this area and have found more "grey" statements in the bibles than I care to think about. It is time to change this from a guessing game into a science. The industry created GPWS against all the odds to reduce CFIT to a minimum, is it not time a drive towards contaminated rwy operations was changed from a guessing game into a science?