Originally Posted by
Odins Raven
They would be worried about getting fired/final warning for landing outside the touchdown zone, irrespective of how much runway was remaining. You have to put yourself in the mindset of a pilot operating in that working environment to understand their willingness to use Airmanship. It all depends on natural personality and how much one has to lose... very easy for us all to second guess an action/decision from a comfy armchair with all the evidence at hand.
True indeed. It's the alarming trend in the industry, DFDR monitoring is getting more punitive than improving the overall safety and airmanship.
GA is a simple maneuver, but when done at the end of a 12 hr duty period could be disastrous. Not to mention the previous accumulated jet lag/fatigue due.
Other day a QR pilot was shooting a VOR D ILS (with failed VOR D) and was so bothered about what missed approach to follow instead of concentrating on the approach. He was indeed cleared for Rnav approach and not ILS.
