Originally Posted by
ODEN
Airborn radar approches has been used for a very long time and would have been safe approaching Blacksod. The focus would have been 100% on the radar if doing an ARA.
Unfortunally it seams the crew where lead into false safety following a company route that was not quality assured and risked assesed. A big responsibility lies on all parts of management and training...
ARA's are not approved within 30NM of land. The newer regulations (i.e. CASA exemptions in Australia) are approved within 15NM of terrain. The weather RADAR is only used for target ID as there is no terrain in the area and a RADAR return is the only way to ID the target. So, unfortunately, weather radar is not a great solution for terrain avoidance in this situation, only weather avoidance