Fly The Plate and You Won't Get Hurt

[Check Airman]

Interesting article I stumbled upon. A learjet hit some trees while conducting an approach, and the investigation showed that the approach did not meet the obstacle clearance requirements.

Fly The Plate and You Won't Get Hurt | Aviation International News (http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2012-08-01/fly-plate-and-you-wont-get-hurt)

[de facto]

What is mind blowing is that no other aircraft during those 5 days clipped any of those tree tops or did report it to the faa.

[Dan Winterland]

Trees have a habit of growing!

Also, at night and in moderate rain, an illusion in the visual segment means that the pilot may get an impression he's flying higher, so a natural tendancy is to go low. Particularly on an aircraft with a highly sloped windsheils such as a Learjet.



http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/files/safety_library_items/AirbusSafetyLib_-FLT_OPS-HUM_PER-SEQ11.pdf

[de facto]

Trees have a habit of growing!

You've seen trees growing in 5 days?:suspect:

[gemma10]

DW many thanks for that file. Very informative indeed and I shall share it with our other group ppl members. :ok:

[Count Dooku]

Read the article the other day.
Really surprised this did not make anymore noise within the community.

I had an experience in Alaska where the trees were much closer than they should have been.

Glad to see that AIN published the story on the front page.