To you and me it may seem ridiculus Stilton. For me personally it would be impossible because the the last item on all of the landings checks I have used has always been "Clearance recieved" which working into any big airports your not going to get until pretty close to the ground.
Its maybe a safety dept lead change because of numorous occurances but then we get into Pay to fly/low houred cadets and altering SOP's to fit their limitations.
Then again they could be flying for Shell or the like and its one of their requirments. And may very well be ignored on the line but its in the book to keep them happy. Shell will say its not a pile of bollocks but just they are world leaders in aviation safety and its best practise.
Tyro its quite a common usage of the RA and like you I think its a complete and utter bollocks way of doing it. Along with setting RA mins when your doing a CAT 1 approach. The bloody noise that comes out of the sodding machine all while your still doing the normal CAT 1 calls. But all you get is some bollocks about belt and braces and it protects against QNH errors. The fact though that the thing is counting down from 500 over the top of the intercom and twr calls and all that other Cat II stuff EGPWS is ignored.
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