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Originally Posted by minitour  Close.
That's for entering the traffic pattern and for an instrument approach procedure with vertical guidance.
The applicable section is...
91.129(e)(3)
You just got to sections 1 and 2.
(e)(3) states...
(3) Each pilot operating an airplane approaching to land on a runway served by a visual approach slope indicator must maintain an altitude at or above the glide path until a lower altitude is necessary for a safe landing.
No mention of large or turbine power.
-mini |
Disregard all after...
However, just to clarify, it does NOT have to be instrument conditions. If there is an instrument approach procedure with vertical guidance, you must follow the vertical guidance to DH/DA.
This bit one crew I know of while the FAA was riding in the jumpseat. Crew dropped below VASI and glideslope They tried to argue that they were "at an altitude necessary for a safe landing"; FAA pulled out the section mentioned about descending below GS prior to DA/DH.