Good luck remoak, no more for me to say on the subject of 13d etc.
How do peoples SOPs stack up to prevent this kind of thing ?
Of course we cannot descend below a procedure minima until allowed by the procedure but in my outfit there is no requirement to verbaly crosscheck range v alt at glideslope capture. Sure we should have the SA and follow the procedure but if it was a verbal crosscheck you were required by SOP to do before you pressed on surely that would be better ? Currently the only compulsery verbal check we have is at the approach fix at around 4 DME.
Also my company practises low drag approach's and has recently changed SOP to delay putting the gear down etc until 1500 above airfield and that tends to clash with the approach fix, is this true of any other operators. I have no issue with it on a visualy monitored approach but if IMC it seems daft to me. Common sense says show airmanship and take the gear earlier if IMC which is what I do but I also see some treat it as a target to achieve. Is this a problem elsewhere ?