Re: Advice from Andre Berger PNF/PF duties
JOHN WILEY (jwiley_at_mindspring.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:07:33 -0500
At 11:00 PM 12/9/98 +0400, you wrote:
>
>Andre, what you said about PF?PNF decision making around minima has really
>helped crystallised my thinking on this really thorny problem. Thanks Andre.
>BTW I'm currently flying helicopters and do a lot of procedural IFR training
>but have a couple of thousand hours on B727/737. We have PNF looking out at
>DA!! How am I going to change the system, I do not know!
>
We use the monitored approach on autopilot with the Captain flying the real
low vis approaches. The calls come at 1000ft above terrain. The next call is
an advisory of "500ft, on speed (or deviation fast/slow), sink rate (sink 5
for 500fpm)". If any nav or guidance flags are showing, they are called. The
next call is "100ft above minimums". The flying pilot transitions outside
and calls "outside". The PNF monitors can calls minimums. The PF then calls
either "landing" or "go-around". This seems to work quite well.
Where the work often comes is in the missed approach if it has not been
properly briefed as to who will do what and when and how the nav will be set
up.