Originally Posted by
roundwego
I don't think we can comment on the design of the approach without seeing the accompanying text which is briefly referred to in the report section 3.5.8. The red highlighted numerics on the chart obviously refers to notes in the unseen text describing the significant obstacles, of which Blackrock was included. I would have thought that as part of the approach brief, they would have gone through the accompanying text in some detail. If they had done so, they must have been aware of the presence of a 310' high obstacle on the approach path.
We should also remember that the chart does not describe an IFR cloud break procedure. It seems to be just "route guidance" to aid what should be a visual section of the flight. I suspect that elsewhere in the company Ops manual there would have been an offshore cloud break procedure to get them VMC below cloud.
Well thats the hole point.
The sad fact is its not clear enough and not noticed by the crew....easy to say otherwise now...