Thai Air B777 Melbourne NDB approach

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I believe that,

"Non-precision approaches are inherently dangerous".

You may wish to disagree, but you have that privilege and also you are alive to exercise it.

I think that the spirited discussion from such obviously highly qualified and experienced aircrew over the last few pages tends to back me up.

I do not disagree that NPAs can be executed safely and with a high level of skill.

I also agree that any International ATPL licence holder should be able to execute any approach that he is qualified to carry out.

I suspect that given a sample of said International ATPL holders that there will be a much wider scatter in the results of conducting an NPA as opposed to the results of conducting a precision approach.

That is the long and short of it.