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9th September 2010 | 00:32

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From: The Colonies

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Should the GPWS be sounding alerts if the aircraft is high? And in landing configuration?

I'm guessing that it alerted to an excessive sink rate below a prescribed altitude. That would be consistent with an aircraft high on approach.