chrissw - Passengers are fair game on a professional pilot's forum, as are we fair game on a passenger's forum. But the ill-informed, sensationalist "WE ARE GOING TO DIE!" rubbish is spouted by too many on every abnormal approach. But we still don't kill them. The only thing that is true is that the safety margins are less on one these approaches. But saying that were "marginally concerned because a slight reduction in safety margins and slightly dissatisfied that these might not be improved to a normal level due to the mitigation of extra measures" doesn't make the same impact with the Facebook generation. But maybe the people who spout this rubbish have such poor levels of professional competence in their own jobs that if they were faced with a similar problem, people would die?
Please judge us by our own standards, not those of the general public (who I agree pay our wages).
PM