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Old 25th Apr 2006, 13:35
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NASA shuttle's landing

Hi,

is that true that the NASA shuttle only ever did autolands??....why was it preferred to a manual landing since the wx conditions for each one of its landings were way above cat 1??what if the autoapproach capability failed??...would the crew have been able to land it??
i would assume that the autoland was common practise only because its pilots never actually did any touch and goes on it as opposed to many automatic computer tested landings....

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