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Old 13th Dec 2013, 08:06
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Originally Posted by chuks

I am not familiar with SFO. Is the visual to that runway steeper than 3º, and if so, why?
The charted visual has an altitude at about 6 nm that places an aircraft slightly above a normal 3 degree GS. Not enough to throw it in the crazy difficulty category
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