26500lbs
Training is far more limited due to the nature of budgets and how much the customer is willing to pay. There is always a competitor who will try and do it cheaper, driving competition and stretching budgets ever further. My point is that we have what we have and have to work with that and within some of the constraints we have upon us
surely this is the real elephant in the room and unless such cost cutting is addressed, anything else is simply rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
DB - is that 100' warning a selectable one or is it, as you imply, a final and automatic warning that chimes on every single approach regardless? If it is the latter, then there is no surprise that crews become de-sensitised to it.