To: pabianice
100 foot altimiter errors usually put them down, on the localizer, but about 4 miles short of the threshold. Sounds like stupidity 101 here.
25 posted on
11/22/2004 7:23:32 AM PST by
MindBender26
(Having your own XM177 E2 means never having to say you are sorry......)
To: Aeronaut; JETDRVR; Arkie2
26 posted on
11/22/2004 7:28:56 AM PST by
snopercod
(Inflation, it's how wars are paid for.)
To: MindBender26
Can you put that in english for us non-pilots?
To: MindBender26
Yeah, I agree. Sounds like classic loss of situational awareness.
I have flown this approach, IMC numerous times. The STAR takes you to a way point NE of the airport then, a radar vector which puts you on a down wind for 4. For departure spacing they keep arriving turbine traffic up at 6,000'. A lot of times they turn you in very close to the marker necessitating a very rapid rate of decent in order to capture the GS. Way too early to speculate but they just might have gone through the glide slope and "landed" short.
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