Why on earth shall we have to search for a small text on the airport diagram plate stating CATII/III...? It's simply rediculous. Sometimes (when diverting for instance), you don't have any time to waste.
But more importantly is that for CATIIIa, minima is not 50 feet RA...it's less than 100 down to 50 feet RA. So lets say the CATII minima is 105 RA for a specific approach, how can we just set 50 RA for a CATIIIa approach using the same plate?? To spell it out, how can it be that if the JAR-OPS CATII system minima can not be applied for an approach, why shall we automatically apply the system minima for a CATIIIa approach?
For that very reason it would have been sooooooo much easier with the damn plate in our hands.
Last edited by RYR-738-JOCKEY; 5th January 2007 at 12:14.