Originally Posted by
Gary Lager
Anyway, if we needed actual CATII/III conditions to do an autoland check, how could we do one if the aircraft had only CAT I capability until we'd done an autoland? Or are the 'conditions' you refer to in post #1 more to do with airfield protections and ILS capability, rather than Wx? If so, forgive me.
I was talking about inferring that an a/c is now Cat 2/3 capable based on its performance shooting an autoland to a Cat 1 facility.
You wouldn't get an aircraft certified doing that but it appears you can get it
re-certified doing it!
For the purposes of disucssion the wx is VMC, because shooting a Cat 2/3 using a Cat 1 facility when the RVR is <550 is a little daft...amongst other things...
Our SOP prohibits anybody bar a training captain doing practise autolands for training purposes.
It doesn't say anything about "autolands for the purposes of re-certification" but if the CP wants his a/c flying rather than sitting on the ground, a pragmatic approach to the problem is the way forward.
That tends to be forthcoming.