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Old 20th Jan 2015, 12:04
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BlackPrince77
 
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If you chose to land on a 2,286 m runway when your LDR is 2,000 m that's your call and I support you in making it. But if you stuff it up and bend something you can expect the insurance company to ask why you didn't avail yourself of the 3,000 m runway that was also available especially if it was into wind!!

Our job is to minimize risk and get the job done to the highest level of safety AT ALL TIMES, it's your call where you draw the line on the day.
I assume you don't do an autoland on every single ILS you fly either because technically, the autopilot flies the approach better than you and thus, is a higher level of safety than you manually flying it?

We are pilots after all, where's the fun in making things too easy for ourselves...
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