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You are right to a certain point, but all you are required is to follow the airplane in front of you and land. It's a dumb simple requirement. If it was such a
by ExoticPearTree 3y ago
You are right to a certain point, but all you are required is to follow the airplane in front of you and land. It's a dumb simple requirement. If it was such a big issue, FAA would have put a stop to it at SFO, but just because one Air Canada flight tried to land on the taxiway does not make it a safety critical issue. Mistakes happen all the time.
Asking for an airport to break its arrival sequence because your airline has a different policy than the airport is bonkers.
- briandear 3y agoThe FAA deviating from ICAO standards for visual approaches is more bonkers.
- freeopinion 3y agoYes, mistakes happen all the time. One aspect of the aviation industry that I have always noted is the reluctance to adopt this as an excuse for failure. When a pilot pushes Button X instead of Button Y, it isn't just chalked up to pilot error. Somebody asks why Button X and Button Y are arranged right next to each other to begin with. Why was a situation created in which "pilot error" becomes so easy? Then things are changed so that such pilot error becomes harder and less likely. It's an admirable thing when somebody has to go out of their way and go through some contortions to make critical mistakes.