Lap Sap
Sorry that this BEKOL thread has become a SIERA thread also..... But anyway.
Thanks for the interesting background on this. As a non-HKG operator we get told nothing of course, there's just a different chart in the book one day. Nor am I really up to speed on how the SIERA arrival interacts with other arrivals. Having said that, I do know a senior ATC guy there in HKG and I knew changes were coming. But my airline, as a whole, still is anticipating a potential 50-55nm from SIERA to the 07 thresholds.
If we are not going to get the tight cut-in anymore, then I have no problem being 280 at SIERA (kind of a shame as I really like flying that tight arrival). But the merest hint of track shortening and 280 is not fair: we shouldn't be forced to ride the speed brake all the way down. Pax get the s#!ts and I have a problem with high rates of descent approaching the ground....
Again, thanks for some of the background, mate - the first I've heard!