View Full Version : Armchair Captains this is for you :
https://youtu.be/Nu459tnPiVU
What do you all think ?
G0ULI
19th Apr 2017, 21:32
Unstabilised approach, good decision to go around.
Station_Calling
19th Apr 2017, 21:54
...chuck it away and wait a while before having another go. Can't fault that.
SymbolA310
19th Apr 2017, 22:09
A normal day in the office.
Hotel Tango
19th Apr 2017, 22:24
C**p conditions, good decision, good airmanship.
A go-around followed by a missed approach by a pilot who was on the ball.
TowerDog
20th Apr 2017, 01:11
Good decison, good airmanship.
St. Maarten it looks like.
Octane
20th Apr 2017, 03:33
Why was he so far off the centre line? I assumed the guidance systems would have had him better lined up than that? Was pretty awful conditions...
Jn14:6
20th Apr 2017, 08:33
Looked like a bit of windshear on short final.
Good decision, well executed G/A, what we're paid for!
RAT 5
20th Apr 2017, 08:59
Why was he so far off the centre line? I assumed the guidance systems would have had him better lined up than that?
I assume the guidance system in use was Mk.1 eyeball, so good question; unless as others have asked a shift in the wind at low level. I was amazed that there were people 'on the beach' in the rain.
Why was he so far off the centre line? I assumed the guidance systems would have had him better lined up than that? Was pretty awful conditions...
They look lined up to me except for the last couple of seconds which is why the crew initiated the go-around.
Approaches show only a couple of degrees offset from runway heading.
Looks like low level wind shear.
Again, there's nothing special about this and it's what 'we' do.
http://www.eddk.info/Download/PDF/TNCM.pdf