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Originally Posted by Pogue
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Yeah, this is part of what I meant about procedures. More than half of this is just backwards from everything I've been trained to do. Things like getting lower and slower. For a fixed wing, speed is life. Getting lower and slower is just not in the book. You keep your speed and climb out of trouble.
And five nights a week I haul a Metroliner III into BUR, so I'm passingly familiar with the area. But I've never seen it during the day. To me I know there's mountains on three sides because they're on the chart, and I've seen the lights along or near the ridges of those mountains, but I've never seen any detail. But I know enough that I know I wouldn't want to be driving around 1000 ft off the deck in clouds along their bases. It can be a treacherous place to fly.