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Old 8th Jul 2013, 11:56
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Originally Posted by nitpicker
AND the fault of ATC for slam dunk approaches......
SOrry nitpicker, this is just fantasy. If you look at the ads-b data provided in Post #654, you'll see that at time 6:23:52 they were aligned on final (note the heading) that lat,long is a position *14* NM from the runway threshold, and their altitude was 4275'

It's pretty tough to argue that a 14 mile final from 4300 ft is a "slam dunk"
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