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Old 2nd Nov 2007, 16:34
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Lederhosen,
Correct. You must use common sense. If you land at a very busy airport, ie a landing every 2 minutes with departures in between, it is not prudent to do an autoland. London also comes to mind. However with lower visibilities the separation between landing and or departing aircraft has to be increased. Furthermore, if you land at night at a small airport the chance is you are the only one landing.
And once again it is a cat one ILS, so the time between 200 ft and landing is to asses wether stable landing is likely. If not, manual, or goaround.

ps,
The 8 yrs was on the 737. I have been doing autolands at cat I ILSes for 20 years. No problems, just keep in mind when and when not to do it.
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