Yeah, that's just what you need in a passenger airliner - a pilot who takes risks.....
I don't understand the mentality: "I will literally risk my life and all my passenger's lives by flying below the minima for this procedure/approach. That will 'prove' that I am a very good pilot"
Erm, no, think again. If these people want thrills why don't they go and fly Pitts Specials on their days off?
I've always had a nagging feeling about RNAV approaches. We are taught to very carefully check the approaches and the tracks and distances of the waypoints in the database, and are led to believe that the coordinates are very carefully checked and verified by the database suppliers. I will certainly be checking even more carefully in future, but how can we guard against incorrect data? There is no ground based reference to double check our approach.
Last edited by Uplinker; 20th Nov 2015 at 09:09.