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Old 21st Dec 2008, 08:02
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framer
 
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To answer your questions 43,
I'm also now interested to know what the FO does as the captain is scanning 95% of the time, is he also scanning
Yes.

Why do you have to be an ace pilot to achieve this, especially if your monitoring your instruments constantly the whole flight, should be easy.
Sometimes people make mistakes and/or errors in judgement. Sometimes ATC places a restriction on your descent, and a stage is reached where a stable approach is no longer achievable. If you fly for long enough one of these things will happen to you and you have two choices 1/ Carry out a go round, or 2/ carry out an unstable approach. Here in Australia we are pretty good at making the sometimes difficult decision to go-around.
Sorry if I was a bit short with you in earlier posts, I had assumed you were a commercial pilot. My bad. Have a good Christmas.
Framer.......Out.
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