In article ,
"pgbnh" wrote:

I think all but one of the posters have missed the fact that the MDA is not
1120 but 680.

Assuming radar or DME, yes.

If indeed the vis was 3 miles, then the runway should have
been in sight from the MDA of 680 feet about a mile OUTSIDE of Culve.

But you can't go below 1120 until CULVE unless you're on the visual. The
chart's not particularly ambiguous about this...

(Remember what you can do once you have the runway in sight????)

You generally have to be below the ceiling before the runway's in
sight... At 1120, with 800/3, you're presumably still in the stratus.

At which
point it's not a particularly big deal to lose 500 feet to land on the
numbers. Maybe even crossing Culve at 3-400 feet agl.

Having done the approach for real, I didn't find the descents
particularly challenging, but they do require a bit of forethought,
that's for sure. The hardest part was being dumped inside DARTS at
6,000'....

Hamish

"Hamish Reid" wrote in message
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In article ,
"karl gruber" wrote:

I see no problem with the weather 800/3 as you point out. Inside BEVEY
drive
down to 680 outside CULVE, and have 3 miles to descend 505 feet. Any jet
will do that all day long.

So you'd drop below 1120 *outside* CULVE? Even if you were just cutting
things a little fine, the 2.4 miles from CULVE is from the *far end* of
the runway you're landing on... and if you were descending below 1120
just inside BEVEY in IMC, you might be in more trouble than you'd like.

Hamish