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Old 29th Jun 2007, 22:34
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scanscanscan
 
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Just publish some star arrivals and fly them....if the Gf 320 had flown a star arrival off of Dahran to Runway 12 at star speeds Gf would probably not be in todays mess.....and a lot more people alive.
I asked for such a star to be published many times in my Gf career time 1974 to 2000 and was told it was not necessary....most of us worked out ourown...I often took the ILS.
This was dispite two Air France aircraft crashing previously caught out exactly like the Gf 320 on the black hole approach on a moonless night.
I saw a Cathay 747 miss twice onto RW12 one night before failing safe and taking a 5 knot tailwind down the 30 ILS....he sure saved fuel that night....
Interestingly after the two aAir France crashes onto RW12 Gulf Aviation introduced a rule that you always took the ils option if the wind was within limits at night....somewhere along the line at GF this rule was dropped.
As usual I agree with Iron Butt a pretty wise yank who has been around the block.
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