On Jul 27, 6:39 pm, TakeFlight wrote:
Just for kicks I flew this approach in MS FSX with the CRJ700. I set
the wx to 800 & 3 (no wind) and figured I'd see what kind of
acrobatics I would have to do. I crossed CULVE at 1100' with 130 kts
and flaps 45. I descended for 680 MDA at around 1800 fpm, which
surprisingly did not require any deploy of the spoilers.

FWIW, I believe I remember reading an NTSB report of a Gulf crash (at
i believe Aspen). While it wasn't in the POH, the policy of the
charter company was that spoilers were not to be deployed when landing
gear or flaps were extended...It was mentioned in the report because
investigation revealed that the spoilers were extended on impact...

I broke out
of the clouds and continued this descent until reaching the VASI
glideslope at around 450' and 1/2 mile out. From here on it was a
normal descent and I was able to plop down on the aiming point
markers.

Out of curiosity, what was your "speed" at 1800 fpm? I thought SMO
had a PAPI on 21 but it is FSX...

For what it's worth, FSX had the threshold being at 0.9 DME.


Sounds about right (maybe a bit long...)