Originally Posted by
bugg smasher
It is part and parcel of all professional airline pilot training that one must be able to safely conduct a variety of approaches, down to the applicable minimums. This includes not only the standard ILS approach, but LOC, RNAV, and visual approaches...
Agreed.
It's worth noting that there are RNAV (GPS) approaches published for both 28L and 28R that have 200' AGL minima for aircraft with LPV capability.
I'm not familiar with the 777, but it perplexes me why the crew would not have elected to fly a coupled RNAV (GPS) approach if the ILS was NOTAMed off the air.