Tom the T....your frustration with lack of Cat III at Cork hits us all. Cork will never have this facility as long as the current undulating terrain and hump on the 17 threshold remain which negates the ability to do an auto land as aircraft flare too early in autoland mode so we must disconnect @ 80ft latest. This leaves us with the only option of doing Cat II which is not ideal disconnecting automatics at such a late stage. Hence the minimums of 122 ?Rad Alt DH and 300m/ 125/125m rvr requirements. If you had Cat IIIA we would get 50RA 75/75/75M RVR. Thats a hell of difference and would make all this crap of diversions extinct. I am loathe to take swipes at EICK but from a drivers point of view it is a nightmare in low vis conditions.
Have they ever thought of putting in a Cat 3 on rwy 35? We'd have to put up with the tailwinds but we'd get in?
