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Old 09-18-2017 | 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Packrat
You need to check out the FAA video on how wingtip vortices work. Unless you had a tailwind, there's no need for you to ever fly an ILS "a dot high". Doing that only puts your vortices in the next guy's glide path.

He was in a RJ following a Super. Good catch in case a C-172 was next on approach.

I'll go for the 1/2-1 dot high in that case too depending on ceiling height. I see your point if the Super's are never a dot high and tailwinds are never present on approach.
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