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Old 02-07-2018, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer View Post
Do it often enough and you could be the SKW crew. Do it in the days before EGPWS and the outcome won’t be good. I’d be real careful about accepting altitudes below “platform” which is the intermediate segment. There’s only 1,000’ ROC on the intermediate segment, potentially not much clearance. I never did unless I knew exactly where the terrain was; no harm staying a couple hundred feet high.

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You don't get that option in a place like ATL or LGA or ORD. You don't get to stay a few hundred feet above assigned altitudes. Like I said, we do it so much in flatland that I can understand a crew misinterpreting a potentially illegal clearance. Doesn't excuse them for not flying the approach but I'm not relieving ATC of any blame. The non-standard clearance is what caused the confusion during an already high workload environment.
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