Crossing a stepdown fix high

David Megginson wrote:

Greg Esres writes:

To comment that "if they fly the approach as published, they won't hit
anything" is a very shallow analysis. Not every CFIT deviated
intentionally from the published approach.

The other question is what "as published" means for an NPA -- do you
make a vertical descent at every stepdown fix? The whole point of an
NPA is that there is no vertical profile published, only a series of
minimum altitudes.

Very well stated.