Years ago I remember watching a BA produced video about "rushed approaches". We all rather jokingly said that we didn't need a video to show us how to perform rushed approaches, we were all pretty damn good at them already. Nowadays, particularly at places like AMS ( where they like to be just that little bit "smarter"
) and others that had better remain nameless ,where they just can't get a CDA right to save themselves, there is a much greater requirement to fly non-classical GS captures from above & abbreviated stable segments.
1000'IMC/ 500 VMC seems sensible to me, but for sure the workload on a trainee ( & his trainer) is increased.
Well, we ain't going back to 10miles drag-it-in approaches anytime soon, so even the new guys will need to get this sussed pretty early on in their training.
The time scale from 770ft when 144kt was set (and was also the actual speed), to Sh1t "STICK SHAKE" @ 460' was relatively short, still no excuse for no-one to be watching the pot boiling over, but it wasn't the 100 seconds blink that people were accusing them of, more like 30 sec at most, during which the landing checklist would have to be completed, and perhaps missed app alt set if not done immediately after G/S capture at only 1330'.
Methinks the current trend to be just that little bit too smart in stabilising the approach got them. It's great fun if you are planning it that way, and very satisfying when spool up/ configuration/ ROD and everything all come together @ 520 radio and yet another thimblefull of Shell's finest is saved for the Beanie's
, BUT. . . . if you are new , half asleep, or simply not planning/expecting it, it can finish as a wake up call a little too late if you are more accustomed to operating further from the limits.
I still think they were a bit dozy IMHO, but I can certainly see how it happened, nothing out the ordinary, just a rushed approach with the crew a bit behind on the drag curve. . . . I think we have all seen one of those at some time ?
