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Old 18th Mar 2018, 15:44
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Fokkerwokker
 
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>>However, the aircraft was allowed to fly hands off to impact, on a CAT1 only ILS! <<

I was a F/O on the first Tristar course with Goofair in the mid-70s.

ISTR it was standard practice, at the time, for us to use Cat 1 ILS runways on our network to work up the number of Autolands prior to being granted Cat 2 then ultimately Cat 3 status. I think we merely transmitted the request to ATC that we would like to perform an A/L although I don’t recollect what particular protections were put in place for our arrival.

A/Ls were a non event as far as my feeble memory recalls!

We certainly didn’t encounter any ‘Brize-type’ events!

Perhaps Basil would care to comment?

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