"Richard Hertz" no one@no one.com wrote in message
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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john smith wrote:

"Taking the chance on being delayed in an airport just won't work,"
Green said. "You have to be there Friday morning for practice or you
miss practice. Miss practice, and they don't let you attempt to
qualify."

Sounds like a recipe for "gottagetthereitis" to me.

Hardly - when you are talking about the pilots, equipment and approaches
they have at their disposal. This is much different than some private
pilot wanting to beat home a lowering cloud deck at night or trying to
beat a t storm...


Not at all different.

No matter how good the pilots, equipment, and approach equipment is , it can
still be insufficient to successfully execute the approach and be in a
position to land when the runway pops into view.

So, do we go a little below posted minimums, 'cause we might still break
through?
If we pop out high, do we steepen our descent and try to make what's left of
the runway????
Do we attempt to keep the runway in sight with a below-limits circle???...

(Everybody here tell me that you have never tried one or more of the above
and managed it successfully, and if you did it once, why not again).

Remember, practice (or qualifying, or photo-shoot, or...) starts in an
hour.... If we overshoot, we may not do any better on the next try and will
have to divert.

Different conditions, maybe, but still the same potential for
"have-to-get-there". More dangerous than the Cessna beating the cloud deck,
because the tolerance for error is much smaller, and the financial
consequence much greater.