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Another point with he runway lights is that they are directional, with most of the luminous energy emitted in the direction of the runway, so you only see them when you are relatively aligned with it. If you approach from the side, like in a long base leg, you don't see them at all until you are really close.
I remember in a flight bound for Ezeiza in the dusk that we were in the base leg for a long final and I was looking at the airport through my little window and thinking "why aren't the lights on yet? It's quite dark already" As we started the turn to final the lights became visible.
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So even a pilot who has never landed at a specific airport should be expected to be 100 percent in this case? I suppose in busy areas, with limits on expansion for the large airports, other airports popup. Since planes don't turn on a dime, how big a navigation error would take you to an alternative airport? I still remember the flight that flew 180 miles beyond MSP as the flight crew were using laptops to schedule vacation.
So even a pilot who has never landed at a specific airport should be expected to be 100 percent in this case?....
Ummm, yes....100%.....or really really really really really really damn close to 100%. 99.999999999999999999999999999999%
The world is full of airports a few miles apart with aligned runways...as is clearly evidenced since this happens from time to time.
If pilots operated only visually, maybe it might be a bit too much to expect "perfection" from a first-timer.
But this is a "known problem" so there's a bunch of SOP's (I'm going to avoid the word "requirement") that you tune the ILS signal, or tune a VOR or NDB or....
....the pink line on the modern GPS/RNAV/computerized/moving map system that Tee Vee ranted about.
Close-by, aligned runways is a visual challenge, but these incidents are generally a bad human failure to double check things with the robust navigation systems.
The vast majority of the time, there's a pretty decent approach to guide you right to the runway- and maybe in this computer age there needs to ALWAYS be an R-Nav and/or GPS approach which contains distance and/or vertical guidance to address nearby somewhat aligned airports and a rule that you always "tune and follow" this approach???
Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
I don't agree, pilots shall perform a minimum amount of take-off and landings manually along their monthly duty so they keep their mind fresh and well trained just in case computers fail or automation is not working.
I don't agree, pilots shall perform a minimum amount of take-off and landings manually along their monthly duty so they keep their mind fresh and well trained just in case computers fail or automation is not working.
You never know when something is going to fail.
And you don't agree with what?
That you are cross-checking your visual references with a VOR, DME, ILS or RNAV approach depicted on your nav screen doesn't mean that you are not had-flying.
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I don't agree, pilots shall perform a minimum amount of take-off and landings manually along their monthly duty so they keep their mind fresh and well trained just in case computers fail or automation is not working.
You never know when something is going to fail.
Indeed...Pilots should be required to land at five airports a month for which they are not familair and which have a nearby, aligned runway and use no electronic guidance...and do it at night too.
Too much reliance on automatic stuff!
Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
Indeed...Pilots should be required to land at five airports a month for which they are not familair and which have a nearby, aligned runway and use no electronic guidance...and do it at night too.
OK, again, tell me how pilots know where they are in space. And doesn't TOGA apply to this, too? My imagination tells me the guys go into a descent to the runway, then FMS says the coordinates are wrong, and they announce a TOGA so they can reorient and get their plane on the right coordinates. Of course, this is just a passenger's imagination of what modern planes would do.
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