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Old 29th Jan 2007, 02:45
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Wizofoz
 
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bbg,

Assuming your profile is correct, you are obviously an old has-been who now takes delight in sitting on the fence sniping at people who do what you can no longer do (though I wonder if you ever did!!).

These guys had a valid ILS indications, a valid Indent and no flags. These indications are sufficient for us to allow a CATIIIB approach in 50m Vis with no decision height!!
The situation got very rushed very quickly. A perfectly routine approach suddenly started to feel wrong, with the aircraft descending faster than normal.

Perhaps in your day (when accident rates were far higher) you might have decided this was a time to sit back and start trouble shooting. These days, believe it or not, we are taught to FLY THE AEROPLANE, which is exactly what the Captain did.

THEN faced with a confusing and contradictory set of data, the crew rightly concluded thing were not as they should be, went around, and prevented a CFIT. A professional crew doing what there trained to do.

How great is it that ANZ chose to put together a Video to highlight this particular problem, and to raise awareness of the limitations of ILS in general?

Now that any such video ends up on U-Tube, and is subjected to the half-arsed analysis of "Monday Morning Quarterbacks" such as yourself, not to mention scum-bag journalists, how likely is it that such efforts will be made in the future?

Edited to add- We haven't done Base Checks for years (have you heard of a Simulator?) Get up to date or but out!!
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