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B737 captain raised concerns about ATC procedures into mco that forces pilots to fly an unstabilized approach.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1667682 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201907 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | MCO.Airport |
| State Reference | FL |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Large Transport |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 164.12 Flight Crew Type 2602.27 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach |
Narrative:
[I] have wanted to write this up many times but always forget by the time I get to the hotel. Did the visual 18R approach into mco tonight. The controller demanded that aircraft stay at 2;500 feet until crossing the VOR before descending. Doing so puts you extremely high on both instrument and visual glide path; creating an extreme unstable approach just to get back on glide path. This always causes full glide slope deflection and 4 white on the VASI. Knowing that we are put into this situation deliberately by ATC is extremely irresponsible. This is an absolute safety hazard and should not be happening and not be tolerated. I presume this is being done to provide separation with the small GA airport under the approach path. Making hundreds of transport carrier commercial flights a day deliberately perform very unstabilized approaches for the benefit of a small GA airport is crazy. Perhaps make those operating from that small field stay low instead of us staying high. I had full scale deflection and was fully configured yet still had to descend at nearly 2000 FPM from 2500 ft. To 1000 ft. Just to catch the glide slope from above. Simply unsafe. By the way; as I'm sure you know; tpa plays the same crazy game landing to the north with mcdill under the approach path.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: B737 Captain raised concerns about ATC procedures into MCO that forces pilots to fly an unstabilized approach.
Narrative: [I] have wanted to write this up many times but always forget by the time I get to the hotel. Did the visual 18R approach into MCO tonight. The controller demanded that aircraft stay at 2;500 feet until crossing the VOR before descending. Doing so puts you extremely high on both instrument and visual glide path; creating an extreme unstable approach just to get back on glide path. This ALWAYS causes full glide slope deflection and 4 white on the VASI. Knowing that we are put into this situation deliberately by ATC is extremely irresponsible. This is an absolute safety hazard and should not be happening and not be tolerated. I presume this is being done to provide separation with the small GA airport under the approach path. Making hundreds of transport carrier commercial flights a day deliberately perform very unstabilized approaches for the benefit of a small GA airport is crazy. Perhaps make those operating from that small field stay low instead of us staying high. I had full scale deflection and was fully configured yet still had to descend at nearly 2000 FPM from 2500 ft. to 1000 ft. just to catch the glide slope from above. Simply unsafe. By the way; as I'm sure you know; TPA plays the same crazy game landing to the north with McDill under the approach path.
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