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An air carrier requested that its pilots fly spiraling descent 'assault' approaches into combat area airports without proper training or reference material.

Narrative:

Company wants to perform spiraling approaches into combat area situations. If area is safe to land in why are there 'assault' approaches being performed? There is no training situation in the flight maneuvers training manual to reference this type of maneuver. The safety of crews and passengers are being compromised by asking to fly approaches into high density altitude combat situations with no training or references.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier requested that its pilots fly spiraling descent 'assault' approaches into combat area airports without proper training or reference material.

Narrative: Company wants to perform spiraling approaches into combat area situations. If area is safe to land in why are there 'assault' approaches being performed? There is no training situation in the flight maneuvers training manual to reference this type of maneuver. The safety of crews and passengers are being compromised by asking to fly approaches into high density altitude combat situations with no training or references.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.