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Old 7th Jul 2013, 22:04
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Indeed. The ILS isn't a safety aid, it's an aid to fly to lower minimums safely; which doesn't apply here as it was VMC anyway.
Very correct, ILSs and visual glide path aids, are just that, aids, not mandatory requirements for excellent VMC visual approaches.

If any airline has pilots so poorly trained and/or lack experience to the point they cannot make a visual approach and landing in perfect weather, they should be prohibited from shooting visual approaches without a full ILS and visual glide slopes backups. So send them to another airport where they can have all the aids possible, including being monitored by a PAR, where they can be ordered to go around if they can't figure it out themselves.

But even with the above, it does not address the low speed issue.
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