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Old 1st Jan 2010, 02:00
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Statisical analysis of industry wide incidents and accidents after landing show overruns primarily associated with an unstabilised approach.

Consequently, SIA and its subsidiaries have established a SOP for all approaches.

Our stabilised approach criteria requires the airplane to be in the landing configuration on speed, on profile and in the slot at 1000' AGL (VMC or IMC).

The only exception is when conducting a visual approach or sidestep approach from a change of runway (for eg., in LAX, DFW, ORD etc) in which case the airplane must be in the landing configuration on speed, on profile and in the slot by 500' AGL and 300' AGL respectively.

Additionally, when below 5000' AGL on approach, airspeed must not be greater than 250 kts unless ATC require a greater speed, and must be not greater than 210kts below 3000' AGL.

Simple stuff. Fit that into your SIA approach profile and there won't be any FDAP triggers to explain. It's all about minimising the statistical probability of an overrun.

AoA has raised an interesting profile for New Year's reading.

It reminds me of an A320 accident in Bahrain...
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