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Old 13th Jul 2017, 18:10
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With all the technology we have at our disposal today, ('Go-Pro/High Res' Cameras, cockpit display screens, electronic flight bags, etc), surely it should be possible to provide crews with visual data, annotated as necessary, in addition to the charts which you obviously have to have.
It surely wouldn't be difficult to photograph each R/W approach from, say, 2 or 3 points on the centre-line, downwind, base-leg or whatever, in day/night and VMC/IMC, under the heading of...'This is what it will look like when you're lined up, or bang out of cloud.
O.K., you might not need it for every R/W at every airfield, just the ones where confusion may occur or has done in the past.
It's often said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words', and the acquisition of a library of visual images would be easy and relatively cheap to assemble. Just put a few cameras in cockpits for a month, and it's done.
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