Originally Posted by
Denti
I have to say, that was the first thoughts i had myself. How can a company have a set of SOPs that is against its own FCOM?
Many operators just take plain vanilla Boeing/Airbus FCOM and write the differences between the company SOP and the manufacturer SOP in a separate document (like OM B). Easy to implement, nightmare to study.
Otherwise, really looks like a strange thing, not checking DME vs. altitude table during non-precision approach, especially when flying with selected guidance in bad weather. Perhaps it's time for the Airbus to finally step up and come up with a way to fly LOC-only approaches with managed vertical guidance.