Originally Posted by Marck
The bridge is at 6nm, and if you believe in 300ft per NM, then the "correct" height at the bridge is 1800ft, not much difference. The base of class B goes to 1500 feet at 7nm and 2500ft at 10nm. The plate does say "recommended", not "required"
1/ Have a look at the location of SFO DME. Then tell me the distance
to the runway when you're at 1900ft/6DME SFO.
2/ Unless you have local knowledge about the actual VFR traffic levels below, you'd be a clown to say "oh it only says recommended, let's ignore it". Why do you think the authorities put that recommendation there in the first place?
Originally Posted by SierraFoxtrotOscar
He has 43 hours of real, non-simulated experience flying 777s, roughly the equivalent of three to four trans-Pacific flights....
Few details emerged Monday about Mr. Lee, who joined Asiana as a trainee in 1994 and gained his pilot's license in 2001. He has just under 10,000 hours of flying time.
The captain on board, Lee Jeong-min (THIS IS THE INSTRUCTOR), has a 12,387 hour flight record. Born in 1964, Mr. Lee Jeong-min has 3,220 hours of flight experience in the 777 model.
As you can see, seniority was not an issue here so perhaps we can put that speculation to rest.
Sorry, you're out of your depth here. Firstly, 43 hours flying three times over the Pacific is worthless as far as experience for this approach/accident goes. Do you actually know what goes on above 10,000ft in a airliner cockpit? As far as stick and rudder skills or approach practice goes,
nothing. Do some research about average flight time, numbers of total landings, numbers of landings the autoland system does, and numbers of landings each pilot does, and then the numbers of landings without ILS. You'll be surprised at how little "experience" these guys had.
As far as the seniority thing goes, I think the theories put up here are entirely reasonable.