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.
The pilots most likely to bend metal (or worse) today are guys like yourself who claim all their "Chuck Yeager-lke" flying skills are better than technology and avionics available. Like Ice-man said, guys like you are "dangerous". I'm sure the Korean Air 747 captain who hit Nimitz Hill in Guam back in late 90's on non-precision approach doing dive and drive was very comfortable in his hand flying/handling skills and was a big fan of doing the dive and drive if "handled properly'. Dive and drive worked out great for them until they hit Nimitiz Hill and killed everyone when it was not "handled properly."
There are plenty of other examples in aviation history of dive and drive NP approaches resulting in fatal accidents. A constant descent approach, either VNAV or other derived constant angle approach is so much more stable and yes SAFER. I can't find anywhere where such an approach in itself has resulted in an accident. I can find plenty where your favored dive and drive has resulted in accidents.
I am sure your are a great stick, but shouldn't procedures be in place for us average Joe's?
Give it up man. Get an Iphone too
