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Old 18th May 2014, 02:38
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No names of course but a SE Asian operator has a published SOP that on becoming visual on an ILS, the electronic glide slope must be abandoned and the PAPI lights followed.
With a very slight change in your description of their procedure that would be a great SOP. Qantas for example, when following the ILS the crew are under instrument or low vis procedures meaning that one guy is heads up and the other must be heads down and monitoring. When visual and the handling pilot calls for 'visual procedures' both pilots are head free the implication being that the ILS guidance is now of secondary importance. This I quite like because it makes it clear by what means the approach is judged and how the responsibilities between the pilots is clearly defined.

If that is how this SE Asia operators procedures pan out then makes sense to me.
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