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China To Require Pilots To Train To Lower Landing Minimums, Domestic Flights Only

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(AP) Chinese aviation authorities will soon require captains of domestic flights into Beijing to master low-visibility landings to combat chronic flight delays that have been worsened by heavy smog. (airnation.net) עוד...

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bovineone
Jeff Lawson 2
Now even less emphasis on being able to perform a visual approach :)
PhotoFinish
PhotoFinish 1
Los Angeles has been dealing with their 'smog' for decades, and it was never this bad. Beijing better create policy to deal with their 'smog'. It will likely also be decades before they see any kind of marked improvement in their city as well.

Point being, if you're going to have smog, you might as well know how to land in it.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
Apparently they are happy with the smog.
preacher1
preacher1 1
Well, the cost of cleaning it up is why their stuff sells so cheap among other things. I don't think though, that LA was this bad on it's worst day.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 1
I'm thinking they need to just go to auto land cause it's gonna be zero zero soon. Lol
PhotoFinish
PhotoFinish 1
It's much worse, which is why nothing short of Herculean efforts will make a substantial change in the environmental conditions.

Maybe a massive build out of nuclear plant and outlawing of all combustion engine road vehicles could be the beginning of change. That would likely take decades, even with top-down autocratic rule.

But even after all that, they'd still have a massive environmental impact from all that industrial pollution alone.

So learning to fly in smog seems like the prudent thing to do. It will be their future for the foreseeable future.
preacher1
preacher1 1
I'm kinda like James, hit the auto land and let's go. The equipment is probably available on most of their planes. Train 'em up, learn 'em how to handle a seat pucker and a CAT3 or better. If that gets any worse over there they may have to get something for the ground too.
KingAirB200
KingAirB200 0
(Duplicate Squawk Submitted)

Smog forces 'blind landing' training on China's pilots

Smog in Beijing is now so bad and such a regular occurrence that the country's civil aviation authority will require the pilots of even small commercial airlines to be able to perform "blind landings."

The move is aimed at easing delays at Beijing Capital International Airport, which has had the worst flight delays out of 35 international airports.


http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/asia/china-smog-aviaition/

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