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Old 25th Aug 2013, 01:50
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Most of us have flown turbo props with not to dissimilar App speeds (in the last segment) to some medium sized jets & that would have been 2nd nature to hand fly such an App yet have a jet under yr ass & the whole thing seems a lot harder!-)
For a few different reasons ( airspeed is not usually one of them), pilots who have been very competent at flying visual approaches manually for years in turbo props can struggle flying the exact same approach in a 737 or 777.
Is the inference in your paragraph that there is something wrong with the jet pilot and that
Most of us have flown turbo props with not to dissimilar App speeds
would do a better job?
Or is the inference that there must be some other factor than airspeed that makes the pilot who is competent in the turbo prop unable to replicate that in a jet?
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