Originally Posted by ECAM Actions
The whole discussion of RNAV RNP is pointless as the end of the approach is VISUAL, because it is a NON-PRECISION APPROACH.
Well there ya go! Here's me thinking that all the (Cat 1) ILS's I've flown also had a visual bit at the end, just like all the NPAs I've flown, and just like this RNP-AR! How wrong I was. No need to look out the window to land visually at all, apparently, given an ILS is a PRECISION approach.
The fact of the matter is that, within a bulls-roar, this RNP-AR would have placed the aircraft in exactly the same spot (horizontally and vertically) as if it had been an ILS. The actions required by the crew at the
Decision Altitude (yes, on this non-ILS approach) would have been exactly the same.