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Old 15th November 2009 | 09:09
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We aimed at the ideal touch down point and disregarded the high indication on the PAPI.

I hope that the instruction was very clear that only "high" indications were to be ignored.

A general "ignore the PAPIs" says ignore low indications also. So one could have pilot A who flies in at 3 degrees to a deeper touchdown paralleling high on the PAIPs but you could have pilot B who flies a 1 degree approach to the same touchdown - also ignoring the PAPIs - until the gear drags through the trees!! As I said - a blank cheque for the lawyers if anthing happened.

For turbine CAT operations I would expect such a measure to be very temporary in nautre and only for as long as it took the aerodrome authority to relocate the PAPI.
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