Originally Posted by
Onceapilot
Basil, incorrect handling of the APFDS caused an accident in the early days of RAF TriStar operation. The accident probably tainted the view of Autoland and, crews were not kept qualified for full A/L use. The Autoland system was used for ILS approaches but, CAT1 limits were used with manual landing. This was purely a restriction applied by higher command.
OAP
Starting to emerge from the mists of time but wasn't it a failure to arm FLARE and also note the absence of the FLARE ARMED caption?
I've no idea why the RAF didn't just accept that there had been an error and train to ensure it wasn't repeated.
It WAS actually a brilliant autoland system which worked better than I did
