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From what I have heard, Asian carriers are woefull at
conducting Visual and Circling Approaches. An ILS would
have been the safest approach for their return.
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You mean woefull as in speling?
I think you will find that many Asian carriers have a highly developed skill level for circling approaches. Before making such a demeaning generalisation, may I suggest you visit Japan and watch 747's and 777s doing circling approaches at mimimums into 2,500m strips. Every second approach into these airports is a circling approach given the fact most domestic airports back into serious terrain.
Finally, I would be very interested to learn how to execute a stabilised ILS approach at 100t over MLW without re-calibrating the glideslope.
Last edited by Traffic; 13th Mar 2003 at 07:25.