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Old 17th Aug 2017, 14:58
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Eau de Boeing
 
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Happy with either, unfortunately company stabilisation criteria require that we are at landing configuration at appropriate speed by 1500' agl and if not by 1000' with a couple of caveats then we have to fly a G/A. Therefore any tighter than 160 to 4 can get interesting with a tailwind.

Normal approach speed is in the region of 130-135 kts so we actually have a bit to lose from 4 miles for a "big jet".

I was just curious why it was necessary in the first place to give the following aircraft the RNAV approach if we are not likely to infringe the ILS on a normal day out.

Anything after my last coffee of the day onboard is last minute ;-)
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