I would have started worrying at that stage. If they had had to use a
“protocol” to which they were unaccustomed, either the ground or the air
component could easily have had a problem.
Chris
> On 19 Jun 15, at 19:59, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When I was being chauffeured from Mazatlan to Culiacan in a King Air, the
> overcast kept lowering, and we did too, until it seemed I could have talked
> to the people on the ground picking tomatoes, if the window were open. :-)
>
> The pilot started chattering away on the radio at some length. When asked, he
> said he and the tower were running over the instrument approach protocol, as
> they used it so seldom that he wanted to be sure they were in sync.
>
> As it turned out, a visual approach and landing was possible.
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