Mortimer Schnerd, RN opined

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.

Great theory. I love it.

But I suspect it was just that we pushed it.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that anyone would consider descending under minimums
without sight of the runway.

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
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com




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