Originally Posted by PBY
But nevertheless, the circling should be done within 1.7 or 2 miles of the runway.
- as far as I can tell, unless 'Airblue' have their own TERPS charts, the circling radius is PansOps.
While c-c has made very valid points regarding 'uncontrollable' and 'unmonitored' automation, as I have said before there is something quite odd about this crash in its inexplicable distance from the field, just like the Yemeni at Moroni a while back. There we appear to have had another strange 'excursion' outside the normal area.
Have we seen that report yet?
The terrain visualisation for this crash (allowing for its limitations) does give me some puzzles in respect of the hills and valleys en-route to the site and I find myself wondering how they impacted where they did - it is almost like some 'hill and valley flying' that went wrong - aka 'letterboxing' - but why? Do we know if the ILS DME was working?