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Old 4th June 2001 | 18:04
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Secret Squirrel
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Positive Climb:

Being largely unaware of the finer points of monitored approaches perhaps you'd like to explain to the uninitiated why it is any less likely to result in a CFIT. Do you perhaps, mistakenly, think that every other airline's non-handling-non-flying pilot sits and catches up with his/her embroidery whilst the descent and approach is flown?

I seem to remember a famous case study, which I'm sure BA bring up often in their CRM courses, of a jumbo going into Nairobi which touched down almost ten miles before the threshhold due to the QNH being mis-set and not picked up by either of the three crew! What I can't remember is the actual date of this ocurrence and so am willing to wear women's underwear and walk like a chicken for a week if it was pre-BA SOPs. No fatalities, admittedly.