ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) (03/15/86)
The San Mateo bridge is 6 DME from the SFO VOR, which makes it about 5 from the threshold. The Quiet Bridge visual approach specifies 1900 min at the bridge, which is about a 1 in 15 slope to the VOR. This is almost a 4 degree slope. The carriers come over the bay from Sausalito, at what I'd say was 5000, and many of them turn *over* the bridge, rather than after. That's 3000 feet a minute, assuming a standard rate 180. I would call that being slam dunked. The carriers probably love it. It's the only chance they get to play, all trip. Of course, it's hard to tell what they do in the soup - I can't see them, of course. All this takes place within the TCA, so entering from the top is another issue entirely. Peter Ladkin