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Old 3rd March 2010 | 10:20
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Capn Bloggs
 
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Chill out Bleed. We were doing this 20 years ago in jets and it works a treat. If you do get Visual, you fly the aircraft into the VASI and continue on to land. If you don't get Visual, you level off at the MDA then execute the MA at the MAP point. It really is not a big issue. Try a non-database approach without a DME - that's exactly what you would do.

We don't fly 200ft low on a precision approach because a precision approach has a DA. When and if our NPAs have a "DA" as low as the current MDAs, then we will fly down the 3° slope.
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