olasek, #250 agreed, but my concern is that the regulators do not appear to have accepted the fact, or the NTSB based on their investigative style.
In order to keep the accident rate low – accepting current level of human performance, what safety activities should the industry concentrates on; thus perhaps the NTSB could have identified aspects or deficiencies in these.
A further concern could be that a low accident rate alone might not be sufficient to manage public awareness. Other countries might accept that aircraft accidents happen, people die (less than from other causes in their country), but the western world’s expectations, more often biased by media, might well require a reduction in the total number of events opposed to rates.
What would the public reaction have been if this accident had been a passenger flight?
Setting MDA. As above, there can be many hazards hidden in this operation depending on autoflight system design.
Some have a mini flare mode to smooth the transition before the mode change is annunciated; others might capture the altitude even after selecting GA.
A continuous descent has been shown to be safer; GA from MDA, climbing up to the pre-set alt sel.