Hmmm. Dannyalliga autopilot engagement at 400? Never saw that before its usually MFRA on NADP2 at the very least. Anyway just read a report that just came out about an Air Europa 737-800 going into GCRR. 21NM and 10000 feet they pressed on. Result: Off the end of the runway. Skipper had 14000 hours. Now most 3000 to 4000 hour skippers in Ryanair that I know would have requested an orbit from ATC( our procedures stipulate that you must be above 3000 feet and outside of 10 miles to do this). Or delaying vectors or just hit the triggers and went round. Why? Because this particular incident is why the strict sops at FR are there. Don't knock the young skippers at FR 9 out of 10 of them are SAFE as houses. Simple as that. Name of the game is safety not how good you are at vertical approaches and incidently I do quite a lot of them myself into Kerry when 08 is in use. But I only do it when operationally required. And no I don't need a vertical profile on the ND either
Last edited by go around flaps15; 13th Mar 2012 at 22:27.