Originally Posted by Capn Bloggs
If you don't have a DME to allow you to fly the correct CDA, then get to the MDA ASAP, PF level off, PM eyeballs out looking. If you fly into the PAPI from below, well and good, do it and land. If you get visual too late, GA and have another go. No point in a CDA if it doesn't take you to the runway on the correct 3° slope. You've got to have a DME (or a GPS distance in lieu, or of course a FMS DB approach) to make a CDA work.
No use to us who fly for airlines who
prohibit the "Arizona approach". CDFA is the norm now, outside of Arizona.
Originally Posted by Capn Bloggs
When to pull is the problem. No DME? You're only guessing.
No guessing - pull when over the beacon, as per the procedure.