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Old 21st Aug 2007, 19:16
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Practice Cat 2/3

Just to offer up how we do it in a fairly major european shorthaul carrier:

We practice Cat 2/3 Autolands on a Cat 1 Promulgated ILS to Cat 1 minimums.

The only big differences between a Cat 1 and Cat 3 ILS are:

A guaranteed instant back up should the transmitter fail at a critical moment.

and

As many have already said, the course structure is guaranteed because of the critical areas being free of vehicles and a/c on the ground close to the localiser and g/p aerials.

That means the decision to land/go around is made at 190 feet, but the a/p can stay in all the way to the roll out at 60 knots.

Obviously we check ALN, FLR and RET and all that good stuff as you would in a proper Cat 2/3 a/land.

Makes sense really - if any deviations occur between 190' and 60 knots you just disconnect and take over manually.

It's only a little Fokker so it's not as sophisticated or involved as a big transport like an L1011.

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