Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
Drag the aeroplane symbol along and you'll see that that approach was nothing like 3.15° from 3000ft as you stated in your earlier post
Here, for the geometrically-challenged, is the FR24 data plotted relative to a nominal 3.15° approach.
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The blue diamonds represent the first approach and the magenta squares the second one. Clearly an unquantified offset (based on the unknown QNH) needs to be applied to the two sets of data, otherwise both aircraft are in the sea short of the runway.
Yes, the first approach was lower than the second one by around 150' at about a mile from the threshold (so I stand corrected on my earlier 50-75' estimate), but the claim that the first approach was "nothing like 3.15° from 3000ft" is nonsense.