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Old 11th Mar 2009, 08:54
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Alex Whittingham
 
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After a bit more research, the Airbus view is:

Alert height is a height defined for CAT III operations with a fail-operational landing system.

Above AH, a go-around must be initiated if a failure* affects the fail-op landing system (* list as per AFM)

Below AH, the approach will be continued (except if the AUTOLAND warning is triggered).

The AH is evaluated during a/c certification. Operators are free to select AH lower than the one given in AFM but not a higher value.


and, as the ILS receiver failure would set off the AUTOLAND warning, the correct answer - on an Airbus - to Q3 would be to Go-around.
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