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Old 14th Jul 2015, 05:39
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Wally Mk2
 
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Oh boy some very basic airman-ship totally misunderstood here....very worrying to think that some are actually flying these things.The RWY is already 330ft up stacked upon lots of dirt, aboriginal sacred site stuff etc!!!Maybe the flat Earth society is alive & well!:-)
At Sheed you are 2500ft above St Kilda beach NOT RWY 34 piano keys!!!
You need ruffly (slang) 7 NM's to loose the height difference (std ILS 3 deg profile), easily doable if you are in front of the plane. You need around 700-800 FPM (speed dependent of course) all the way so from over Sheed you don't get that in an instant so there is some catching up to make up especially if the wind is up yr ass initially!!!.

The biggest issue here with this App is a significant T/W component making yr GS across the ground higher eating into those few Trk miles quicker before you get a chance to wash off that height. SA, it's all about SA, a skill that is lost due the very thing that was was meant to help us dumb sh1t pilots in the first place, the AUTOMATICS!!
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