Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I was not advocating a unstable approach. We have a published VFR pattern. Many however refuse to fly it and take the aircraft out to beyond the marker. When tower calls you 3 times to remind you that your cleared for the visual that is a hint.
I understand. What I was imperfecly trying to say is when visuals attack, the trepedation surrounding them and/or the unstabilized approaches comes from the fact they're not practiced and they're not practiced because people worry they'll come in unstable and go-around and look like an incompetent fool and so they don't try which means they're not practiced... catch 22.
And then if tried and they become JAX rwy 25 then the the policy changes or recommendation becomes don't turn inside the OM but then you're never practiced and they end up flying high, wide and long which as you correctly state is an embarassment if not a traffic problem.
Like I said, I have no solution and I don't know if a company would ever change to a policy of encouraging more hand flying even though they should.