New regulations of the Civil Aviation Agency of China (CAAC) stipulate that airline captains serving the top 10 busy airports of China, including the capital Beijing, must be qualified to perform a Type-2 “blind descent” (visibility of only 400 meters and a ground-to-cloud height of only 30 meters) starting on January 1, 2014.
In 2012, the flow of travelers through the Pudong and Hongqiao airports in Shanghai amounted to the third and fourth most for the entire country in terms of total amount. This means that starting next year, captains supervising the flights from Shanghai to Beijing must be qualified to perform this Type-2 “blind descent”. Additionally, this regulation also affects airline captains in charge of flights from cities like Guangzhou, Chengdu and Shenzhen towards Beijing.
Source: hexun.com
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I guess that means Chinese pilots will become the most quallified in the world. The government reacted to the pollution problem rather trying to solve it. Maybe they have a point. It cost less to train the pilots than it does to reduce the pollution. In the long run fewer people will be flying to these cities because they don't want to get sick. Why go to Biejing or Shanghai to see something you can't see because of the pollution.
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