Well, it might have been a slight joke
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Though I've never heard it referred to as an 'Autoland approach' but an autopilot/dual autopilot coupled approach. An Autoland in my mind has always been the last bit where the aircraft puts itself down onto the tarmac.
So the way I've always heard things termed makes it sound strange to do an autoland approach with manual landing
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I didn't know, though, that the single channel would flare? If I hadn't moved on to another aircraft type I'd love to try that in the sim. Do you have any references for it?