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The approach chart shows an MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude) of 940'. You DO NOT DESCEND BELOW MDA unless the runway is in sight. Approach design standards provid
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
The approach chart shows an MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude) of 940'. You DO NOT DESCEND BELOW MDA unless the runway is in sight. Approach design standards provide some margins, but a 500-600' altitude bust blows past those margins. Luckily this was an over water approach. The GPWS alert seems to have caught this in time.
Busting MDA on a missed approach is a fail on your Instrument Rating flight test.
That said, a 737 is pitch sensitive. No mention is made of the flight mode.