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Old 6th Mar 2009, 11:06
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Originally Posted by Troy
Why an automatic landing?


JD - full agreement, but therein lies the problem. Automatics are 'encouraged' but need to be watched. It was 'suckers corner' - throttles 'expected' to be closed a bit if things were a bit behind, and I suspect 'raw data' needles spot on the ILS - just 2 things missing?
1) Unstable approach = g/a
2) ASI
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