totempole
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Nanaimo
Age: 66
Posts: 30
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It was an interrupted approach onto RW08L as an F15 became disabled on the runway; they had to break off to join visual left base for RW04R. It was a tight maneuver. The F/O was PF and as it was a left hand circuit, he kept bugging the captain to give him " visual radar vectors "
Not very professional were they? They should have carried out the full missed approach and re vectored for the other runway!
It was VMC with south easterly winds, and when they pulled up from the RW08L approach they were asked to join visual left base 04R if they had RW04R visual. They were and so they manually turned right to join left base. It was a perfectly controlled maneuver as they retracted flaps to 20 maintaining at about 600 ft. They had all their checks done and just had select final flaps at mid base.
The only thing was the skipper tried selecting ILS 04R but the copilot told him to forget it; just concentrate on his turns... to tell him when to turn onto finals because of the quartering winds. His demand for " visual radar vectors "snapped the captain out of his momentary heads down and they executed the visual manual maneuver onto RW04R very comfortably and the copilot made a wonderful landing.
SpaceNeedle
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It was an interrupted approach onto RW08L as an F15 became disabled on the runway; they had to break off to join visual left base for RW04R. It was a tight maneuver. The F/O was PF and as it was a left hand circuit, he kept bugging the captain to give him " visual radar vectors "...it was amazing and interesting how the 2 ton operation operated. Anyway, against all odds, they successfully completed that tight circuit spot on and the F/O pulled off a greaser onto the shorter runway!
It ain't that tight a circuit. Easily doable, no problema!
BTW, 04R is not short. It's 9000ft long!
9000ft may not be short for a B767 or B737, but they had a fully loaded B744 with lots of cargo..it was a combi if I remember right. So don't be a grinch!
