And the ATC didnt protect the Glideslope???? Is this a CAT III with a HUD or an APLT/ALAND?.
Holding point 18L from where the SW was is marking the edge of the protection area.(As I understood it from the photos shown here, it is a common line , normal and CAT II/III ). But lining up someone would penerrate the protection area.and then definitively interfere with the autoland.
What puzzle me here is that no one reacts to this, the controller surely knows this, (basic LVO training ) but so are the SW and the Fedex, crews yet everyone seems happy with this, also after the event. . . Hence my earlier questions : is this standard in KAUS or gernerally in the US to disregard old basic rules in the name of expedition . ( as they do with LAHSO for instance).