PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Ryanair, too low on..
View Single Post
Old 5th Dec 2012, 10:22
  #56 (permalink)  
shaun ryder
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Dry bar
Posts: 351
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
For one reason or another this looks like a loss of situational awareness.

One wonders whether fatigue might be a causal factor.
No, more like pushonitis, continuing on with a botched approach either to save face or because of commercial pressures. Fatigue? Call in sick, take a day off, take radar vectors whatever, no excuse for bad workmanship. It is the responsibilty of the Captain to ensure the safety of his pax and crew, flying fatigued, letting the FO fudge it, forget it.. As for accepting a visual approach and then flying it on the automatics? Well it isn't really is it? You might as well take vectors if you want to increase your capacity. Flying this visual through the MCP just made the situation worse, it was never going to happen. I guess that the handling pilot bottled it and continued bounding in to save face. A go around or vectors should have been called a lot earlier.

Was it 2 Captains or FO/Captain? Who was handling?
shaun ryder is offline