Steve Foley wrote:
Is it becuase the airlines are trying to keep the pax comfortable, and don't
want to bounce all over the sky on an approach, or are freight dogs better?


The airliners fly the approach... they want in just as bad as anybody else. I
don't think the freight dogs were necessarily any better either. We just pushed
it a little harder. I never had another crewman sitting next to me to tell me I
popped a DH, not that I would ever do such a thing. But it would be an amazing
thing. I'd shoot an approach to minimums in Charlotte and land, then watch
airliner after airliner fly down the runway only to climb out into the slag
again, interspaced with freighter after freighter taxiing up to the FBO.

I heard a theory it was because we sat closer to the ground that it was just
enough difference for us to see the runway compared to somebody sitting in a big
airliner cockpit. But I suspect it was just that we pushed it.

The boss didn't want to hear excuses; he wanted to hear the airplane taxiing up.
So we did.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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