Straight in approach
Hi everyone,
I'm after some opinions on an issue that cropped up the other day.
On an arrival to a non- radar airfield on a published arrival. The 25nm msa was 3500ft in all sectors. The arrival had us maintaining 8500ft until approx 20nm from the runway which mean we would've been approx 2-3000ft high on profile.
Short of slowing down and making a dirty dive toward the runway what were our options? (Apart from taking up a hold overhead to lose the height) I'm talking legally here as terrain wasn't a factor so we could have disregarded the 8500ft and made a nice relaxed decent. From a safety point of view we were well above msa so the 8500ft must be an airspace/atc restriction.
As far as I know in a non radar environment we must adhere to the published arrival unless on a visual approach ( we weren't visual)
Do Atc have the authority to clear us below the arrival minimum alts?
We were cleared buy Atc to descend to 3000ft and cleared for the iLs many miles out.
Thanks