Courtney, Ponteous et al,
We are really only talking about money - not one's ability to land an aeroplane. In Big Airways, ducking below the G/S on a 747 triggers a SESMA report and the landing pilot would normally receive a caution.
Do it twice and you would expect a sim session to correct your errant ways . Do it again and you might not be allowed to continue so bang goes your income and to a large extent a large part of your planned pension as well, if you have got quite as far as swapping over seats right to left.
It was often quite nice to land on a none ILS runway (Santiago de Chile as an example while the main runway was being resurfaced) and it was a visual procedure with piano keys and numbers painted on a parallel taxiway - but no fixed distance markers. Even then, it would be a brave man to put the main landing gear right on the numbers.
Last edited by 5aday; 30th Sep 2012 at 11:10.