Originally Posted by
donpizmeov
Totally agree fliion. This new procedure is a mess. turning one problem into another.
Nothing like cracking a walnut with a sledgehammer, the new SOP in my view wouldn’t have prevented either event.
The issue in Moscow could never have occurred if 1000’ AAL was set, and JFK wouldn’t have happened if the crew had a clue as to their distance to fly from touchdown.
This is a bandaid applied to a knee that has jerked into an obstruction, and it won’t solve the ROOT cause.
Two things will now happen.
1. Forget flying CDAs, it’s dive and drive, the risks associated with being high outweigh the benefits to crews of flying efficiently.
2. There will now be more events related to high RODs as crews who get hung out to dry by ATC try to get to platform ALT, which despite the missive of a decision to GA from a higher ALT being safer neglects to consider the greater energy and reduced margin to make that decision as some crews will invariably be pushed further into a corner.
Just my immediate thoughts whilst enjoying a rare few days off.