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Old 26th May 2009, 13:28
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My outfit(s) have always been the ones to tell us to set it to the minimums.... keeping in mind that for CAT I / NPA that the minimum is based on baro.

But I think in reality all it does is lead to people using the RA when they should not!

Also.. one time in the sim I was doing a NPA with several failures on the go and the "minimum" call went off causing me to do a go around when I needed not!

So all in all I don't think we should use it unless we are doing a CAT II or better.

Really will be quite interesting to see what everyone else is doing though!
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