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Old 24th June 2008 | 18:02
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alwaysontime
 
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From: oxford
Then you might as well make an autoland. What's the fun in taking the aircraft manual

Going into heathrow, its sometimes the case to get a late landing clearance (I.e less than 200 feet and regularly below 400 feet) and its far easier to go around with the auotomatics connected to free up capacity to watch what the aircraft is doing! I feel if a clearance is given at say 200 feet it is far safer to disconnect and land it than autoland- a) you have not briefed it. b) your mate in the other seat may not notice the aircrafts "NO FLARE" at 30 radio etc,?
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