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Old 25th Aug 2010, 16:10
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SS41 what are you talking about?

A cat II or III is the easy part of the sim at any time of the day.

When did you last do a for real, honest to goodness cat IIIB with an RVR at 75m?

I think I have completed around three genuine LVO’s in 21 years of airline flying based in the UK and operating globally. Even then, only one was a genuine 75m. The rest were because it was below cat I minima by a couple of hundred meters. It’s hardly steely eyed heroic stuff of legend.

Modern flight decks with all the situational awareness aids and multiple redundancies built into the aircraft are exactly where older pilots need to be.

A single crew ex war bird with over 1500 horses up front...now that’s a different matter.
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