Who cares what happens half way down the approach?
You don't just start an instrument approach fly it down and hope you at the right place at the end!!!
The implimentation of GPS/GNSS has greatly reduced the workload of pilots (as it was designed to do). But on the other hand increased complacency.
These sort of systems were supposed to increase a pilots situational awareness not
just make life easier!
having a fix that references distance to go to the field so that one can easily calculate descent profiling surely is the way to go.
I agree! Its much easier knowing how far to run to the destination (then looking at the chart and knowing the lowest step) rather than ???nm to the next waypoint which is ????NM from the destination + my distance from next waypoint =?? . While this is not a difficult calculation its one which could be removed from the whole process. Removing any confusion/mistakes/extra workload. Isn't that the whole idea????
