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Old 29th Mar 2015, 18:08
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CanadaKid
 
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There are so many holes in the 'Swiss Cheese' for a LOC 05 approach.

Runway 05 has virtually non-existant approach lights, descent is predicated on DME (from another rwy) which reads 1.7 at the threshold, cold weather corrections, as well as crap weather and middle of the night, etc.

The pilot reads on his NavDisplay the distance to threshold, and on the PFD the DME distance manually input in the RAD/NAV page for a different rwy.

For the A320 pilots reading this ... an aircraft without any GPS, would this approach be flown in LOC/FPA or V/S? Descent planned on a raw data DME vs altitude table?
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