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Old 2nd Jan 2012, 17:27
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Airbubba
 
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I cannot see why you cannot fly a CDA from Reebo?
That is exactly what many U.S. carriers now do. They use a Derived Decision Altitude instead of an MDA. Usually D-DA=MDA+50 feet from what I've seen but it seems to be operator and Ops Spec specific (to be doubly redundant ).

That dive and drive non-precision approach stuff is thankfully mostly gone with the dinosaurs.

More here in Aviation Circular 120-108:

http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/m...%20120-108.pdf

That parking garage on short final to SAN has been there for a long time. I can remember seeing the keys in the hand of a guy getting out of his car on the top deck as I took a military trainer in there years ago. I had lunch at Boom Trenchard's Flare Path restaurant and got the t-shirt.

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