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Old 7th January 2010 | 08:03
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411A
 
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Not to mention flying level at low altitude... breaking out and diving for the runway = unstable approach...
We don't 'dive' toward any runway, we apply normal descent techniques to the runway.
In addition, we often circle at 600 feet (the lowest we can go with our heavy jet) and you simply cannot apply CANPA for these ops.
In fact, this was mentioned earlier, here...
Levelling out at MDA will only be carried
out in special Approaches, eg. CANARASI R/W 13 at JFK
where special briefing is required
It would therefore appear that the fine art of circling and/or actually finding the runway during non-precision approaches is lost on the younger crowd...and many of the older crowd as well, who have apparently lost their skill somewhere along the line.
All this is in line with the general lack of hand flying/handling skills that we often see today.
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