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Old 11th Jul 2013, 14:01
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draglift
 
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This forum makes painful reading as those who do not fly commercial aircraft make knee jerk reactions and try to tell professional pilots how they should be flying.

Saying you should not fly an approach without an ILS glidepath is a bit like someone who does not drive observing a car skidding off a road in the rain and trying to legislate that cars should not be allowed to drive in the rain on the basis that the accident would not have happened on a dry road.

Saying that pilots should not fly an approach without an ILS glideslope would simply mean pilots becoming overly dependent on ILS and not able to fly visual approaches, ie it would makes the situation worse.

I spent many years flying 747s to Africa and the Caribbean and rarely saw an ILS. The more approaches you do without an ILS the better pilot you will be.
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