Originally Posted by
Bleve
Maybe, maybe not. The 'FMS Bridge Visual' approach is the FMS version of the 'QUIET Bridge Visual' approach (they have the same ground track). QUIET in the name strongly suggests noise abatement. Of course the approach may also provide the ability to fly simultaneous approaches as you suggest. But in this case 28L was closed, so the only approaches were to a single runway (28R). And yet they were still cleared via the equivalent of the 'QUIET Bridge Visual' approach and not the ILS. Excuse the pun, but that 'sounds' like noise abatement was a factor.
OK, point taken. In fact, a bit of digging shows that the airport does actually specify:
"To reduce the impacts of aircraft noise in surrounding communities, particularly between the hours of 2300 and 0700, the Airport encourages the use of the following procedures.
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(4) Use the Quiet Bridge Approach to Runway 28L/R."
Rules and Regulations: San Francisco International Airport