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Old 15th Jun 2009, 07:23
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hetfield
 
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Hi,

regarding your 1st question, well it depends.

- weather (if below CATII Autoland is required)
- airport facilities (CATIII ?)
- training of crew
- tech status of the airplane (MEL)


In our route system I do a maximum of 10 autolands/year. If you fly a lot into foggy GB it may be different. So 99% are manually.

Concerning the 2nd part of your question. Basicly yes. You need CATIII ILS to do autoland, but if the weather is better you can also do autoland on a CATII/I runway with special care (depends on company SOP).

BTW "auto thrust reversers" ???
What's that?

Cheers
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