Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
Just curious, but what were the issues going into SFO? I used to go in there a lot last year. Doing the visual, it was common for the controller to keep you high, followed by the proverbial "keep the speed up you have a 747 in trail, DON'T overtake the Brazilia landing on the parallel, contact tower, good day" from approach.
If I remember correctly, a legacy I commuted on when I was based in LGA had issues with FOQA on the ILS 4. After analyzing the data, I guess they ended up changing the approach as a specific part of it called for excessive descent rates in a particular segment of the procedure, which was leading to unstable approaches, high touchdown speeds/floating.
There is a lot of data out there that shows pilots doing these approaches way to fast, which as you know causes you do become un-stabilized.
Read the green pages you can see the results of a lot of this data right there.