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Old 7th Nov 2015, 06:54
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rmcdonal
 
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I think my colleagues on the 748 that fly into places like JFK on the 13L Canarsie arrival at heavy weights 160 KTS IAS can handle a little offset......
Pulled up a few you tube videos, looks like fun!. Lit up like a Christmas tree, visual at about 2000ft but the plate takes you to 800.
Please don't mistake me of making this sound harder than it is, but the RNAV Z onto 12 (the most common approach I have flown) is the maximum offset for a straight in IF approach, if you drop out of cloud at 600ft AGL (minimum) you will have trouble lining up and being stable (unless your company allows for lower than 500ft stable approaches).
Visually I normally knock the approach off at the FAF and track straight ahead until on center line.

All that said you could just easily fly a circuit into this airport, but the powers that be thought that we would hit to many gliders if we did that.
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