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Old 21st Jul 2008, 06:39
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Alberto, your sentiments are commendable, and clearly find favour with others.

However, all of the work on approach and landing accident reduction tells us that a sensible gate at 500 ft will dramatically reduce the accident and incident numbers.

I agree absolutely that pilots should feel able to fly the aircraft with some flexibility, make visual approaches when weather and traffic permits, and so on, but to suggest that the only 'gate' should be at 35 ft would be to go back to the old statistics, with many more 'events', broken aircraft, and losses of life.

One other thought... The more often that an able pilot feels he needs to disobey the SOPs, the worse the SOPs...
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