Originally Posted by
Sailvi767
Amen! This is not even a remotely difficult approach. In a FMS aircraft regardless of which approach you load it should be a non event.
One possible area of concern that has been recently cited is the low standards of some of the U.S. pilots hired by EK:
Originally Posted by
typhoonpilot
Emirates had quite a few 20 year+ captains from major U.S. airlines who could not even pass the initial course or who later made serious operational errors resulting in their downgrade to First Officer. There were also a number who could not pass the upgrade course after being a first officer for 3 years. A large percentage of those were from Delta and Northwest Airlines. The pilots who tended to do well, with a few exceptions, came from USAirways, American, and United. There were, of course, a few good ones from Delta and Northwest but they were a minority.